Meaning

1 senses
  1. A foolish and embarrassing error, especially one made in public; a social blunder; a breach of etiquette.

    make a gaffe

    Fauxpas, Ausrutscher, Patzer

    опло́шностьoplóšnostʹ, про́махprómax, оши́бкаošíbka

More definitions
  • a socially awkward or tactless act

Examples

4 sentences
  1. He committed a gaffe when he asked whether she was pregnant.

    Він проявив безтактність, запитавши її, чи вона вагітна.

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  2. Tom made a gaffe.

    Том виявив безтактність.

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  3. I was shocked by the alacrity with which my typos and gaffes were pointed out.

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  4. What a gaffe!

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Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
a foolish error, especially one made in public:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
a foolish error, especially one made in public:

Origin

From French gaffe (“blunder”). Doublet of gaff.

From French gaffe (“blunder”). Doublet of gaff.

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