Gaffe (noun)
gaf
a social blunder; faux pas.
Gaffe entered English around 1905–10 and comes from the same French word meaning “blunder.”
The French word gaffe probably was a special use of the word gaff, an iron hook used for handling large fish.
Example sentences
“It was hard to believe he’d made yet another office gaffe!”
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