About The Word Double-entendre
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Double-entendre
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What's The Definition Of Double-entendre?
[n] an ambiguity with one interpretation that is indelicate
Synonyms | Synonyms for Double-entendre: Related Terms | Find terms related to Double-entendre: ambiguity | ambiguousness | amphibology | belly laugh | blue story | complexity of meaning | counterword | dirty joke | dirty story | double meaning | double reference | equivocacy | equivocal | equivocality | equivocalness | equivocation | equivoque | ethnic joke | fun | funny story | gag | good one | good story | howler | irony | jape | jest | jestbook | joke | laugh | levels of meaning | multivocality | panic | paronomasia | play | point | polysemant | polysemousness | polysemy | portmanteau word | pun | punning | rib tickler | richness of meaning | riot | scream | sick joke | sidesplitter | sight gag | sport | squinting construction | story | tergiversation | uncertainty | visual joke | weasel word | wheeze | wow | yarn See Also | ambiguity Double-entendre In Webster's Dictionary \Dou"ble-en*ten"dre\, n. [F. double double +
entendre to mean. This is a barbarous compound of French
words. The true French equivalent is double entente.]
A word or expression admitting of a double interpretation,
one of which is often obscure or indelicate.
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