innuendo
n. hint, intimation, indirect suggestion (usually derogatory) | ||||
Search Dictionary:
Innuendo definition was found in categories: Language, Idioms & Slang(5) Encyclopedia(1)
Innuendo Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) |
Innuendo
(n.)
An oblique hint; a remote allusion or reference, usually derogatory to a person or thing not named; an insinuation.
(n.)
An averment employed in pleading, to point the application of matter otherwise unintelligible; an interpretative parenthesis thrown into quoted matter to explain an obscure word or words; -- as, the plaintiff avers that the defendant said that he (innuendo the plaintiff) was a thief.
(n.)
An oblique hint; a remote allusion or reference, usually derogatory to a person or thing not named; an insinuation.
(n.)
An averment employed in pleading, to point the application of matter otherwise unintelligible; an interpretative parenthesis thrown into quoted matter to explain an obscure word or words; -- as, the plaintiff avers that the defendant said that he (innuendo the plaintiff) was a thief.
| WordNet 2.0 |
innuendo
Noun
1. an indirect (and usually malicious) implication
(synonym) insinuation
(hypernym) implication
Noun
1. an indirect (and usually malicious) implication
(synonym) insinuation
(hypernym) implication
| hEnglish - advanced version |
innuendo
innuendo
\in`nu*en"do\ (?), n.; pl. innuedoes(&?;). [l., by intimation, by hinting, gerund of innuere, innutum, to give a nod, to intimate; pref. in- in, to + -nuere (in comp.) to nod. see nutation.]
1. an oblique hint; a remote allusion or reference, usually derogatory to a person or thing not named; an insinuation. mercury owns it a marriage by an innuendo. pursue your trade of scandal picking; your innuendoes, when you tell us, that stella loves to talk with fellows.
2. (law) an averment employed in pleading, to point the application of matter otherwise unintelligible; an interpretative parenthesis thrown into quoted matter to explain an obscure word or words; -- as, the plaintiff avers that the defendant said that he (innuendo the plaintiff) was a thief.
note: the term is so applied from having been the introductory word of this averment or parenthetic explanation when pleadings were in latin. the word "meaning" is used as its equivalent in modern forms.
innuendo
\in`nu*en"do\ (?), n.; pl. innuedoes(&?;). [l., by intimation, by hinting, gerund of innuere, innutum, to give a nod, to intimate; pref. in- in, to + -nuere (in comp.) to nod. see nutation.]
1. an oblique hint; a remote allusion or reference, usually derogatory to a person or thing not named; an insinuation. mercury owns it a marriage by an innuendo. pursue your trade of scandal picking; your innuendoes, when you tell us, that stella loves to talk with fellows.
2. (law) an averment employed in pleading, to point the application of matter otherwise unintelligible; an interpretative parenthesis thrown into quoted matter to explain an obscure word or words; -- as, the plaintiff avers that the defendant said that he (innuendo the plaintiff) was a thief.
note: the term is so applied from having been the introductory word of this averment or parenthetic explanation when pleadings were in latin. the word "meaning" is used as its equivalent in modern forms.
| for Vocabulary Exams of KPDS, YDS,UDS (in Turkey); and SAT in America |
innuendo
Insinuation
Insinuation
| English Phonetics |
Innuendo Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
| Wikipedia English - The Free Encyclopedia |
Innuendo
A sexual innuendo is a remark or question, typically disparaging, that works obliquely by allusion. The intention is often to insult or accuse someone in such a way that one's words, taken literally, are innocent. Innuendo can make use of, but is by no means restricted to, double entendre (note that doubles entendres can be unintentional, while innuendo is always intentional).
| See more at Wikipedia.org... |