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echo question

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noun

Grammar.

  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?

Etymology

Origin of echo question

First recorded in 1955–60

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