Definitions
Etymologies
- From French double ("double") + entendre ("to mean, to understand"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“346 Here is a double entendre “and the infirm letters (viz. a, w and y) not subject to accidence, left him.””
““Khassá-ni”; Khusyatáni (vulg.) being the testicles, also called “bayzatán” the two eggs) a double entendre which has given rise to many tales.”
““Bilábil”; a plural of “Bulbul” with a double entendre balábil (plur. of ballalah) = heart’s troubles, and “balá, bul” = a calamity, nay, etc.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘double entendre’.
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Loan words from French
gite, coq au vin, dernier cri, clique, hors d'œuvre, touché, naïve, coquette, bourgeois, contretemps, flâneur, film noir and 63 more...
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English with Tongue
French words and phrases used by English speakers.
objet d'art, nom de plume, petite, bon voyage, avant-garde, faux pas, faux, touché, répondez, s'il vo..., rouge, papier mâché, joie de vivre and 85 more...
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MiaLuthien's list ♥
gambit, prehensile, coquetry, impunity, genuflect, ensconce, clavicle, delude, beget, castigate, life caching, convoluted and 478 more...
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spicolli's Words
terrapin, ravenous, fuck, sepulchral, garlic, suss, queer, curmudgeon, foodie, intricate, omphalos, subversion and 534 more...
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Collage's Words
subtle, calamity, impale, qat, painterly, piebald, surly, nihilistic, repine, slake, larder, sepulchre and 349 more...
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random
words I read but don't know
nascent, proxy, desultory, charlatan, churlish, emaciated, gaudy, shill, lurid, frisson, marauding, plunder and 610 more...
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_mark's list
Words I like!
( personal list, favorite words, randomness )psy, nanobot, success, smack, vibration, microcosmic, springgraph, marksmanship, estranged, homoerotic, flex, fiasco and 1707 more...
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not for mixed company
sodding, git, trollop, bitch, sissy, bastard, strumpet, pillock, quack, scallywag, cad, minx and 23 more...
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Foreignyms
soi-disant, je ne sais quoi, guerrilla, attaché, serviette, aubergine, beef, pork, sayonara, ciao, mot juste, bon mot and 13 more...
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Internationally Known
wunderkind, a la carte, brunette, blitz, passe, genre, du jour, kindergarten, gegenschein, encore, lederhosen, souvenir and 20 more...
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The Horizontal Hula
Words relating to everyone's favorite activity.
tup, frottage, wank, snog, callypigian, concupiscent, turgid, priapism, dalliance, conjugal, nee, coitus interruptus and 18 more...
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pshaw's Words
pshaw, worcestershire, ubermensch, ambiance, ittawamba, caveat emptor, functional, double entendre, monad, kumbaya, coprolalia, epicureanism and 31 more...
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Words I starred in Google Dictionary
Google Dictionary's star feature went away though so now I am here. If you did the same this URL might be helpful: http://www.google.com/dictiona...
affectation, aggrandize, anachronism, anathema, annex, anecdote, anesthetize, antediluvian, aphorism, apropos, arboretum, asinine and 87 more...
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letters and words
tautology, neologism, litotes, alliteration, amanuensis, anthropomorphism, logophile, malapropism, metonymy, mnemonics, onomatopoeia, palindrome and 13 more...
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elizhogan's Words
objet trouve, double entendre, grandiloquence, miasma, malaise, longueur, convivial, corollary, peer, cozen, yen, fungible and 63 more...
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Foreign Phrases
sui generis, non sequitur, carte blanche, ad nauseam, ad interim, ad infinitum, de rigueur, ultra vires, ex parte, ad hoc, bon vivant, double entendre and 22 more...
Tweets
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johnmperry Something seemingly innocently spoken, but with a second (rude) meaning.
A woman went into a bar and asked for a double entendre, so the barman gave her one. Jul 20, 2008