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Definition: Faux Pas |
Faux PasNoun1. A socially awkward or tactless act. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Faux Pas A "false step"; a breach of manners or moral conduct. (French.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Faux pas are very culture specific; what is considered good manners in one culture can be considered a horrible faux pas in another. For example, in America it is usually considered good manners to bring a bottle of wine when coming to someone's house for dinner. In France, however, this is considered insulting as it implies that the dinner-hosts are unable to provide their own good wine.
Using a bidet as a toilet is a faux pas which is common with first-time visitors to Europe.
See also: most common Wikipedia faux pas
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Faux pas."
Synonyms: Faux PasSynonyms: gaffe (n), gaucherie (n), slip (n), solecism (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Failure | Blunder; (mistake); fault, omission, miss, oversight, slip, trip, stumble, claudication, footfall; false step, wrong step; faux pas, b_vue, faute, lurch; botchery; (want of skill); scrape, mess, fiasco, breakdown; flunk. |
Guilt | Misconduct, misbehavior, misdoing, misdeed; malpractice, fault, sin, error, transgression; dereliction, delinquency; indiscretion, lapse, slip, trip, faux pas, peccadillo; flaw, blot, omission; failing, failure; break, bad break , capital crime, delictum. |
Impurity | Incontinence, intrigue, faux pas; amour, amourette; gallantry; debauchery, libertinish, libertinage, fornication; liaison; wenching, venery, dissipation. |
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Crosswords: Faux Pas |
| English words defined with "faux pas": blunder, boob ♦ goof ♦ sin ♦ undetected. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "faux pas": FOX'S PAW. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Faux Pas" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Czech (gaffe), French (false step, faux pas, stumble, trip). |
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Screenplays | Near faux pas. I almost wore the same thing (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Faux Pas (2001) | |
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Expression using "faux pas": make a faux pas. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
faux pas | 66 |
fashion faux pas | 8 |
definition faux pas | 2 |
china cultural faux pas | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "faux pas"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | shkarje (creep, fault, glissade, Miss, skid, slide, sliding, slip), proçkë (blunder), hap i gabuar (false step, misstep), gafë (balk, baulk, bloomer, blunder, Boner, gaffe, gross fault, howler, slip). (various references) | |
Arabic | زلة (cringing, error, fault, frailty, lapse, peccadillo, stumble). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | гаф (boob, bungle, floater, gaff, gaffe, infelicity, slip, snafu), нетактичност (atrocity, blazer, clumsiness, tactlessness). (various references) | |
Chinese | 得罪 (say something that offends sb; have a faux pas). (various references) | |
Czech | omyl (error, fallibility, lapse, Lapsus, oversight). (various references) | |
Finnish | kömmähdys (bloomer, blunder, boner). (various references) | |
French | faux pas (false step). (various references) | |
German | fauxpas (blunder, gaffe, solecism), lapsus (mistake, slip). (various references) | |
Greek | παραπάτημα (misstep, stumble, trip), λάθοσ (error, mistake). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מש'" בע י י מוס. (various references) | |
Hungarian | indiszkréció (breach of secrecy). (various references) | |
Italian | gaffe (blunder, gaffe). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | auxfay aspay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | gafe (gaffe). (various references) | |
Russian | ложный шаг (false step, gaffe, mis-step). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | pogrešan korak (false step, gaffe, misstep, mis-step). (various references) | |
Spanish | falso paso, metida de pata (howler), coladura (seepage, straining). (various references) | |
Swedish | felsteg (false step, lapse, stumble), tabbe (bloomer, Boner, boob, clinker, cock up, gaffe, goof, howler, muff, slip), blamage (disgrace). (various references) | |
Thai | การประพฤติผิ". (various references) | |
Turkish | pot (atrocity, bloomer, blunder, Boner, break, clanger, contretemps, crease, gaff, jackpot, kitty, pool, pot, stake), hata (balk, baulk, blemish, delinquency, demerit, error, failing, false step, falsity, fault, flaw, floater, fluff, gaffe, goof, imperfection, inaccuracy, lapse, mistake, slip, slip up, stumble, trip, wrong, wrongness), gaf (atrocity, bloomer, blunder, Boner, break, bull, clanger, contretemps, flub, gaff, gaffe, goof, howler, slip, slip of the tongue, slip up). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự lỗi lầm, h nh động tếu (cap). (various references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-f-p-s-u-x" | |
-3 letters: faux, upas. | |
-4 letters: aas, asp, fas, fax, pas, pax, pus, sap, sau, sax, spa, sup, ups. | |
-5 letters: aa, as, ax, fa, pa, up, us, xu. | |
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