double ententen.
/ˌduːbl ɒnˈtɒnt/ = double entendre n.
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the mind > language > malediction > [noun] > profane language
swarec1200
shit-wordc1275
words of villainya1300
filtha1400
reveriec1425
bawdry1589
scurrility1589
bawdy1622
tongue-worm1645
borborology1647
Billingsgatry1673
double entendre1673
smut1698
blackguardism1756
slang1805
epithet1818
dirty word1842
French1845
language1855
bad languagec1863
bestiality1879
swear-word1883
damson-tart1887
comminative1888
double entente1895
curse-word1897
bang-words1906
soldier's farewell1909
strong languagea1910
dirty story1912
dirty joke1913
bullocky1916
shitticism1936
Anglo-Saxonism1944
sweary1994
the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > equivocal quality, ambiguity > [noun] > expression containing
amphibologyc1374
ambagea1413
ambiguity1583
ambiguea1592
amphibole1606
amphiboly1610
equivoque1614
dilogy1656
double entendre1673
amphilogy1731
amphibologism1813
equivocality1830
double entente1895
left-hander1920
1895 ‘H. S. Merriman’ Sowers (1896) xx. 163 He had a deft way..of planting a double entente.
1909 Westm. Gaz. 24 July 4/3 Our journalists have used more often the incorrect phrase double entendre than the French critics the phrase double entente, which is the term that our writers ought to employ.
1934 Punch 19 Dec. 692/1 There are of course occasions for laughter, the loudest laughter being very naturally given to those ‘double ententes’ which are readily offered by the association of boy scouts and girl guides in camp.
1938 H. G. Wells Apropos of Dolores iv. 154 There's a lot of this double-entente in French, I know.
1957 B. Evans & C. Evans Dict. Contemp. Amer. Usage 142/2 There is no use pointing out that double entendre does not exist in French and that the proper phrase for a double meaning, one of them usually indelicate, is double entente.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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