gaff
失言
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
「失言・へま」の gaff は、より一般的な綴り gaffe と結び付けて覚えると実用的です。公の場で不用意な発言をして気まずくなる場面を思い浮かべましょう。ただし gaff には本来「魚を引っ掛ける鉤竿」など別の意味もあるため、失言の意味では gaffe のほうが誤解されにくく、綴りを必ず確認します。
For the sense “an embarrassing mistake or remark,” connect gaff with the much more familiar spelling gaffe. Picture a speaker saying something careless in public and immediately creating an awkward silence. That social situation fixes the intended meaning better than the word’s sound alone. Be careful, however: gaff also commonly names a strong hook or hooked pole used in fishing and has other informal senses. When you mean a social or verbal blunder, gaffe is usually the clearer and more widely recognized spelling, so check the context and spelling before using gaff.
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gaff の語源・成り立ち Etymology
プロヴァンス語 gaf（船用の鉤）に由来し、元は大きな魚を引っ掛ける鉤竿を指した。俗語で「失言・へま」の意味になったのは blow the gaff（秘密をばらす）という慣用句から派生。関連語: gaffe（フランス語経由の同源語で社交上の失態）。
Gaff in its older concrete sense came through French or Provençal from a word for a hook, and it has long denoted a hooked pole used aboard a boat or for landing large fish. English slang also developed expressions such as blow the gaff, meaning to reveal a secret. The use of gaff for an embarrassing mistake is closely associated, and sometimes confused, with gaffe, a French-derived word for a social blunder.
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