echo question


nounGrammar.
  1. a question uttered by a listener that in effect repeats a speaker's sentence, replacing an unclear or doubted portion of the sentence with a stressed interrogative word, as You said WHAT to John? or He WHAT?

Origin of echo question

1
First recorded in 1955–60

Words Nearby echo question

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