英语词汇“gaffe”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	gaffe
释义	gaffe\|gæf\| Also gaff. [Fr. (see gaff n.²).] A blunder, an instance of clumsy stupidity, a ‘faux pas’. 1909Pall Mall Gaz. 12 Apr. 1/1 These two gentlemen, whose weather predictions are still listened to with some deference, have made a bad ‘gaffe’, to use a popular slang expression.1922Blackw. Mag. Mar. 303/1, I had obviously said the wrong thing, committed a gaffe.1924Galsworthy White Monkey i. ii, ‘He's a bit romantic, of course.’ ‘Oh! Have I made a gaff?’ ‘Not a bit; jolly good shot.’1928C. Mackenzie Extremes Meet 207 Knowing nothing, you might easily make a bad gaffe.1959Economist 6 June 922/2 It would be too silly if this newspaper gaffe induced..any future prime minister to relapse yet further into the grave political vice of showing immutable loyalty to his friends.
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