gaffes

Meaning of gaffes

plural noun
  1. an unintentional act or remark causing embarrassment to its originator; a blunder.
    in my first few months at work I made some real gaffes
    his comments are a major diplomatic gaffe

early 20th century: from French, literally ‘boathook’ (from Provençal gaf : see gaff1), used colloquially to mean ‘blunder’.

Information about gaffes

  • It is a name.
  • The singular form of gaffes is: gaffe.
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Hyphenation of gaffes

gaffes

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
  • gaffes is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

gaffes synonyms

Meaning a stupid or careless mistake:

blunder

Meaning an act or judgement that is misguided or wrong:

mistake

Meaning a mistake:

error, goof

Meaning a minor or careless mistake:

slip

Meaning behaviour or speech that is indiscreet or displays a lack of good judgement:

indiscretion

Meaning failure to observe standards of honesty or modesty; improper behaviour or character:

impropriety

Meaning an act of miscalculating; an error or misjudgement:

miscalculation

Meaning awkward or unsophisticated ways:

gaucherie

Meaning a breach of good manners; an instance of incorrect behaviour:

solecism

Meaning a very stupid or glaring mistake, especially an amusing one:

howler

Meaning an erection of the penis:

boner

Meaning a bungled task:

botch

Meaning a mistake made in speaking or playing music, or by an actor in delivering their lines:

fluff

Meaning a mark which is not high enough to pass an examination or test:

fail

Meaning an embarrassing mistake:

boob

Meaning a plant that produces flowers at a specified time:

bloomer

Meaning an absurd or embarrassing blunder:

clanger

Meaning an embarrassing error:

blooper

Meaning a short low-pitched noise emitted by an electronic device:

bloop

Meaning a person or thing that floats:

floater

Words that rhyme with gaffes

agraffes, giraffes, neaffes, piaffes, Cliffes, Griffes, coiffes, griffes, Tartuffes, bouffes, pouffes, ruffes, tartuffes, truffes, tuffes

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