insinuendos
English
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Noun
insinuendos
- plural of insinuendo
- 1873–1884 (date written), Samuel Butler, chapter LXI, in R[ichard] A[lexander] Streatfeild, editor, The Way of All Flesh, London: Grant Richards, published 1903, →OCLC, page 278:
- There’s many a good tune played on an old fiddle. I hate his nasty insinuendos.
- 2006, Edna Buchanan, Shadows, Simon & Schuster, page 174:
- "I don't like those insinuendos. Tell me when I had an accident! Name one!"