innuendo
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- (archaic) inuendo
Etymology[edit]
From the Latin innuendō (“by nodding”), ablative singular form of innuendum (“a nodding”), gerund of innuō (“I give a nod”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
innuendo (plural innuendoes or innuendos or innuendis)
- A derogatory hint or reference to a person or thing. An implication, intimation or insinuation.
- She made a devious innuendo about her husband, who was embarrassed.
- (logic) A rhetorical device with an omitted, but obvious conclusion, made to increase the force of an argument.
- (law) Part of a pleading in cases of libel and slander, pointing out what and whom was meant by the libellous matter or description.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
A derogatory hint or reference to a person or thing, an implication or insinuation
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Verb[edit]
innuendo (third-person singular simple present innuendos, present participle innuendoing, simple past and past participle innuendoed)
- (transitive, law) To interpret (something libellous or slanderous) in terms of what was implied.
- 1894, Frank Towers Cooper, A Handbook of the Law of Defamation and Verbal Injury (page 119)
- A statement that a person's presence at a certain club may be "irksome," may be innuendoed that the person is of such bad character as not to be a fit associate with honourable men.
- 1894, Frank Towers Cooper, A Handbook of the Law of Defamation and Verbal Injury (page 119)
External links[edit]
Innuendo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Innuendo in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
Anagrams[edit]
Latin[edit]
Verb[edit]
innuendō
