double entendre

Significado (Inglés)

A phrase that has two meanings, especially where one is innocent and literal, the other risqué, bawdy, or ironic; an innuendo.

Conceptos

doble sentido

albur

equívoco

Sinónimos

bawdry

bawdy

equivocalness

equivocation

pun

wisecrack

witticism

double meaning

with two meanings

Traducciones

doppio senso

double sens

duplo sentido

doble sentit

Mehrdeutigkeit

fouble sens

Double sens

meerduidigheid

Duplo sentido

ambiguïté

entente

à double entente

équivoque

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/dubl ɑ̃tɑ̃ːdɹ/

Etimología (Inglés)

According to Merriam-Webster and OED, from rare and obsolete French double entendre, which literally meant "double meaning" and was used in the senses of "double understanding" or "ambiguity," but acquired its current suggestive twist after being first used in English in 1673 by John Dryden. From French double (“double”) + entendre (“to understand, to mean”). The phrase has not been used in French for centuries and would be ungrammatical in modern French. The closest modern equivalents are double sens, which often has (but not always) the suggestiveness of the English expression, and sous-entendu which implies a subtext.