[每日] gaffe (n) 失禮
Word of the Day (Wednesday December 17, 2008)
gaffe \gaf\, noun:
Pronunciation: http://0rz.tw/9259X
a blunder; faux pas
Torii Hunter was in full mea culpa mode Friday, taking
responsibility for Wednesday night's gaffe, when he forgot there
were only two outs, pulled up between second and third base and
was tagged out in a rundown against the New York Mets.
-- Mike Digiovanna, Los Angeles Times, 6/21/2008
The Mountain View company acknowledged the financial gaffe in a
regulatory filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission,
saying the unintended notes revealed a projection that
advertising revenue will grow to $9.5 billion in 2006, up 58
percent from the previous year.
-- Verne Kopytoff, San Francisco Chronicle, 3/8/2006
So this is what they mean by the soft bigotry of low
expectations. The weeklong drumbeat that led to the vice
presidential debate suggested it would be a matchup between an
airhead and a gaffe machine.
-- Ellen Goodman, Boston Globe, 10/3/2008
by 1909, from French gaffe "clumsy remark," originally "boat
hook," from Old French gaffe, from Old Provencal gaf, probably
from Gothic gafa "hook," but this origin is obscure. It may
derive from British slang gaff "to cheat, trick" (1893) or
gaff "criticism" (1896), from Scottish dialect sense of "loud,
rude talk," which ultimately may be from Old English gaf-spræc
"blasphemous or ribald speech."
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