gaffenoun [ C ]
uk/ɡæf/us/ɡæf/a remark or action that is a social mistake and not considered polite:
I made a real gaffe - I called his new wife "Judy", which is the name of his ex-wife.
You started eating before anyone else had been served? What a gaffe!
Synonym
faux pas
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Faults and mistakes
- a blot on sb's character idiom
- aberration
- Achilles heel
- adrift
- black mark
- chink
- clinker
- creep in/creep into sth
- errata
- erratum
- error
- failing
- false alarm
- false move
- lapse
- loophole
- misprint
- misspell
- mistake
- mistaken
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