faux-pas
Origin:
1670–80; < French: literally, false step
1670–80; < French: literally, false step
Synonyms
error; impropriety.
error; impropriety.
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| —n , pl faux pas | |
| a social blunder or indiscretion | |
| [C17: from French: false step] | |
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Faux-pas
is always a great word to know.
So is ninnyhammer. Does it mean:
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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faux pas
1670s, from Fr., lit. "false step."
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