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View synonyms for touché
touché
[ too-shey ]
interjection
- Fencing. (an expression used to indicate a hit or touch.)
- (an expression used for acknowledging a telling remark or rejoinder.)
touché
/ tuːˈʃeɪ /
interjection
- an acknowledgment that a scoring hit has been made in a fencing competition
- an acknowledgment of the striking home of a remark or the capping of a witticism
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Word History and Origins
Origin of touché1
First recorded in 1920–25; from French: literally, “touched”
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Word History and Origins
Origin of touché1
from French, literally: touched
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Example Sentences
She chuckles to herself, the way she frequently does after spitting out a zinger; a kind of personal touché.
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Sabine admitted to herself that the umpires might have called "touché" for this.
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Petherton cried "Touché" at once, and lunged at me in accordance with my plan of campaign.
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Nous eûmes aussi un clavecin, mais quoiqu'il fût touché avec une grande perfection, ce n'est rien en comparaison de la harpe.
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"Touché," murmured Hoskins, and meant either Ives' remark or the flat, solid smack of the hand against the blackness.
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