Synonyms for double entendre

Grammar : Noun

Spell : duhb-uh l ahn-tahn-druh, -tahnd; French doo-blahn-tahn-druh

Phonetic Transcription : ˈdʌb əl ɑnˈtɑn drə, -ˈtɑnd; French du blɑ̃ˈtɑ̃ drə

Définition of double entendre

Origin : also double-entendre, 1670s, from French (where it was rare and is now obsolete), literally "a twofold meaning," from entendre (now entente) "to hear, to understand, to mean." The proper Modern French phrase would be double entente, but the phrase has become established in English in its old form.

noun play on words

Example sentences :

This was no conventional—if the double entendre may be permitted—demonstration.
Extract from : « Theodore Roosevelt and His Times » by Harold Howland

And so it was, though I had not been intending what the French call a double entendre at the time.
Extract from : « Eliza » by Barry Pain

Here, however, it is probable that a double entendre was meant.
Extract from : « George Cruikshank's Omnibus » by George Cruikshank

But, no indeed, I was quite innocent of any double entendre.
Extract from : « Lord Loveland Discovers America » by C. N. Williamson

If it had double entendre, its existence had a double meaning.
Extract from : « Kentucky in American Letters, v. 1 of 2 » by John Wilson Townsend

And wasn't what he had just said very like what the French call a double entendre?
Extract from : « Christopher and Columbus » by Countess Elizabeth Von Arnim

The Normans failed to see the "double entendre" of this reply.
Extract from : « The Rival Heirs being the Third and Last Chronicle of Aescendune » by A. D. Crake

He divined an innuendo, a double entendre in the speech that he did not comprehend, yet which enraged him.
Extract from : « A Man's Hearth » by Eleanor M. Ingram

Now large teeth do not lend themselves to well-spoken comedy scenes, to smiles, or to double entendre.
Extract from : « The Elusive Pimpernel » by Baroness Emmuska Orczy

Simplicissimus, Harden's Zukunft, all the double entendre weeklies and monthlies of Paris.
Extract from : « Secret Memoirs: The Story of Louise, Crown Princess » by Henry W. Fischer

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