innuendon.

/ɪnjuːˈɛndəʊ/

Forms: Also inuendo. Plural innuendoes, (1600s–1700s innuendo's, 1700s–1800s innuendos).

Etymology: Latin, = ‘by nodding at, pointing to, meaning, intimating’, ablative gerund of innuĕre to nod to, signify, mean; in medieval Latin used to introduce a parenthetic clause.

I. As a formula: to wit.

1. The medieval Latin formula used esp. in legal documents to introduce a parenthetical explanation of the precise reference of a preceding noun or pronoun; = meaning, to wit, that is to say.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > the quality of being specific > [adverb] > namely or that is to say

namelya1200

i.a1300

namandlya1400

scilicet?a1425

videlicet1464

scil.a1500

viz.a1543

innuendo1564

videl.1589

sc.1607

i.e.1662

vid.1676

v.g.1678

1564 in F. J. Furnivall Child-marriages, Divorces, & Ratifications Diocese Chester (1897) 123 What-soeuer thinge it is, that knave your sonne—innuendo this deponentes sonne—made it, & brought it to the Church.

1656 T. Blount Glossographia Innuendo, is a Law term, most used in Declarations and other pleadings..to declare and design the person or thing which was named incertain before; as to say, he (innuendo the Plaintiff) is a Theef.

1701 D. Defoe Let. to How in Misc. (1703) 343 ‘But when Religion comes to be the Mode of a Country, so many Painted Hypocrites, there's the Word, get into the Church, that Guile is not to be seen till it arrive to Apostacy’. Pray, Sir, who can these Painted Hypocrites refer to, that you should say, Innuendo, All those that are not of my Party, or that are not so stingy as I?

II. Hence, as noun.

a. The parenthetical explanation or specification itself; an interpolated or appended explanation of, or construction put upon a word, expression, or passage; esp. the injurious meaning or signification alleged to be conveyed by words not per se injurious or actionable, which, in an action for libel or slander, is usually introduced into the record and issue by the words ‘meaning thereby’, after the expressions alleged to have been used.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > jurisprudence > [noun] > interpretation of the law > an interpolated

innuendo1701

1701 D. Defoe Let. to How in Misc. 341 I cannot find one Word in the whole Book which can, no, not with the help of an Innuendo, be so much as pretended to look that way.

1714 W. Scroggs Pract. Courts-leet (ed. 3) 196 No Innuendo can make such Words actionable.

a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 571 This by an Innuendo was said to be an evidence to prove, that he [sc. Sidney] was in a plot against the King's life.

a1726 G. Gilbert Cases Law & Equity (1760) 116 That to tie up the Meaning of the first Words to Bankruptcy, the Plaintiff had laid an Innuendo.

1753 Trial J. Stewart 72 We have seen doubtful actions by the help of innuendoes construed criminally.

b. The words or expressions thus parenthetically explained, or needing explanation; a blank to be filled up with the name of the person to whom it is alleged to refer.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > naming > anonymity or lack of a name > [noun] > blank space for a name

innuendo1755

1755 Ld. Chesterfield in World No. 105. ⁋11 By publishing the names at full length in your paper, I humbly conceive, said he, that you avoid all the troublesome consequences of innuendo's.

1772 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra I. Pref. p. xvi He told the jury..that they had nothing to determine, except the fact of printing and publishing, and whether or no the blanks, or inuendoes were properly filled up in the information.

1802 Edinb. Rev. Oct. 106 An indictment for a libel, with all the inuendos filled up.

3. An oblique hint, indirect suggestion; an allusive remark concerning a person or thing, esp. one of a depreciatory kind.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > information > hint or covert suggestion > [noun] > innuendo

innuendo1689

insinuendo1885

significacio1933

1689 J. Collier Moral Ess. conc. Pride 37 What a broad Innuendo is here upon the beneficed Clergy?

1702 R. L'Estrange tr. Seneca's Morals by Way of Abstract (ed. 8) 517 His Innuendo's are infinitely more Instructive than his Words at length.

1732 Polit. Ballads (1860) II. 234 For Sir Philip well knows That his innuendoes Will serve him no longer in verse or in prose.

1788 R. Burns Let. 13 Nov. (2001) I. 336 They so intoxicated me with their sly insinuations and delicate innuendoes of Compliment that if it had not been for a lucky recollection..I had certainly looked on myself as a person of no small consequence.

1849 W. Irving Oliver Goldsmith (rev. ed.) xxxi. 272 He..sought by nods and winks and inuendoes to intimate his authorship.

1855 J. L. Motley Rise Dutch Republic I. ii. iv. 394 The Cardinal omitted nothing in the way of anecdote or innuendo which could injure the character of the leading nobles.

Compounds

attributive and in other combinations.

ΚΠ

1772 Batchelor (1773) II. 156 He justly termed it an inuendo resolution.

1807 E. S. Barrett Rising Sun III. 66 That thou wert..exhibited to public scorn, by any innuendo-making Attorney-General.

Derivatives

innuˈendoish adj. rare having the character of innuendo.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > information > hint or covert suggestion > [adjective] > innuendo

innuendoing1705

innuendoish1860

1860 G. Meredith Evan Harrington xxxviii, in Once a Week 1 Sept. The Countess's confessional thoughts were all inuendoish, aërial; too delicate to live in our shameless tongue.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

innuendov.

Etymology: < innuendo n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: innuˈendo.

1. intransitive. To utter or make innuendoes.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > information > hint or covert suggestion > hint or suggest [verb (intransitive)] > make innuendoes

innuendo1852

1705 [implied in: S. Whately in W. S. Perry Hist. Coll. Amer. Colonial Church: Virginia (1870) I. 177 His insinuating and Innuendoing methods. (at innuendoing adj. at innuendo v. Derivatives)].

1852 R. S. Surtees Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour vi. xxxi. 190 We have heard that there were six mammas..innuendoing, nodding, and hinting to their friends, ‘that, &c.’.

1896 Voice (N.Y.) 8 Oct. 1 I believe that..it is better for a man to ‘say his say’ straight, than to kite and innuendo, no matter how sweetly.

2. transitive. To bring into (some position) by making innuendoes.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > information > hint or covert suggestion > hint at or suggest [verb (transitive)] > convey by innuendo > bring into by innuendo

innuendo1757

1757 Bp. W. Warburton Lett. (1809) 245 The rogues..would..inuendo me into some disaffection against the government.

3. To convey by innuendo, to insinuate.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > information > hint or covert suggestion > hint at or suggest [verb (transitive)] > convey by innuendo

innuendo1858

1858 R. S. Surtees Ask Mamma i [He] would inuendo his own version of the story as dexterously as he could.

4. Law. To interpret or construe by attaching an innuendo.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > jurisprudence > jurisprudence [verb (transitive)] > interpret for legal purposes > interpret by interpolated construction

innuendo1851

1851 W. Bagehot Lit. Stud. (1879) I. 349 They take the other side's article piece by piece, and comment on him, and, as they say in libel cases, innuendo him.

1890 Ld. Kinnear in Times 6 Feb. 7/6 What is the ground upon which you innuendo the statement in this letter to mean that he was in point of fact given to drink?

Derivatives

innuˈendoing adj. making innuendoes.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > information > hint or covert suggestion > [adjective] > innuendo

innuendoing1705

innuendoish1860

1705 S. Whately in W. S. Perry Hist. Coll. Amer. Colonial Church: Virginia (1870) I. 177 His insinuating and Innuendoing methods.

1839–49 J. Stephen Ess. Eccl. Biogr. (1850) II. 32 This innuendoing special pleader.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2019).

单词	innuendo
释义	innuendon. /ɪnjuːˈɛndəʊ/ Forms: Also inuendo. Plural innuendoes, (1600s–1700s innuendo's, 1700s–1800s innuendos). Etymology: Latin, = ‘by nodding at, pointing to, meaning, intimating’, ablative gerund of innuĕre to nod to, signify, mean; in medieval Latin used to introduce a parenthetic clause. I. As a formula: to wit. 1. The medieval Latin formula used esp. in legal documents to introduce a parenthetical explanation of the precise reference of a preceding noun or pronoun; = meaning, to wit, that is to say. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > the quality of being specific > [adverb] > namely or that is to say namelya1200 i.a1300 namandlya1400 scilicet?a1425 videlicet1464 scil.a1500 viz.a1543 innuendo1564 videl.1589 sc.1607 i.e.1662 vid.1676 v.g.1678 1564 in F. J. Furnivall Child-marriages, Divorces, & Ratifications Diocese Chester (1897) 123 What-soeuer thinge it is, that knave your sonne—innuendo this deponentes sonne—made it, & brought it to the Church. 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Innuendo, is a Law term, most used in Declarations and other pleadings..to declare and design the person or thing which was named incertain before; as to say, he (innuendo the Plaintiff) is a Theef. 1701 D. Defoe Let. to How in Misc. (1703) 343 ‘But when Religion comes to be the Mode of a Country, so many Painted Hypocrites, there's the Word, get into the Church, that Guile is not to be seen till it arrive to Apostacy’. Pray, Sir, who can these Painted Hypocrites refer to, that you should say, Innuendo, All those that are not of my Party, or that are not so stingy as I? II. Hence, as noun. 2. a. The parenthetical explanation or specification itself; an interpolated or appended explanation of, or construction put upon a word, expression, or passage; esp. the injurious meaning or signification alleged to be conveyed by words not per se injurious or actionable, which, in an action for libel or slander, is usually introduced into the record and issue by the words ‘meaning thereby’, after the expressions alleged to have been used. ΘΚΠ society > law > jurisprudence > [noun] > interpretation of the law > an interpolated innuendo1701 1701 D. Defoe Let. to How in Misc. 341 I cannot find one Word in the whole Book which can, no, not with the help of an Innuendo, be so much as pretended to look that way. 1714 W. Scroggs Pract. Courts-leet (ed. 3) 196 No Innuendo can make such Words actionable. a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 571 This by an Innuendo was said to be an evidence to prove, that he [sc. Sidney] was in a plot against the King's life. a1726 G. Gilbert Cases Law & Equity (1760) 116 That to tie up the Meaning of the first Words to Bankruptcy, the Plaintiff had laid an Innuendo. 1753 Trial J. Stewart 72 We have seen doubtful actions by the help of innuendoes construed criminally. b. The words or expressions thus parenthetically explained, or needing explanation; a blank to be filled up with the name of the person to whom it is alleged to refer. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > naming > anonymity or lack of a name > [noun] > blank space for a name innuendo1755 1755 Ld. Chesterfield in World No. 105. ⁋11 By publishing the names at full length in your paper, I humbly conceive, said he, that you avoid all the troublesome consequences of innuendo's. 1772 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra I. Pref. p. xvi He told the jury..that they had nothing to determine, except the fact of printing and publishing, and whether or no the blanks, or inuendoes were properly filled up in the information. 1802 Edinb. Rev. Oct. 106 An indictment for a libel, with all the inuendos filled up. 3. An oblique hint, indirect suggestion; an allusive remark concerning a person or thing, esp. one of a depreciatory kind. ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > hint or covert suggestion > [noun] > innuendo innuendo1689 insinuendo1885 significacio1933 1689 J. Collier Moral Ess. conc. Pride 37 What a broad Innuendo is here upon the beneficed Clergy? 1702 R. L'Estrange tr. Seneca's Morals by Way of Abstract (ed. 8) 517 His Innuendo's are infinitely more Instructive than his Words at length. 1732 Polit. Ballads (1860) II. 234 For Sir Philip well knows That his innuendoes Will serve him no longer in verse or in prose. 1788 R. Burns Let. 13 Nov. (2001) I. 336 They so intoxicated me with their sly insinuations and delicate innuendoes of Compliment that if it had not been for a lucky recollection..I had certainly looked on myself as a person of no small consequence. 1849 W. Irving Oliver Goldsmith (rev. ed.) xxxi. 272 He..sought by nods and winks and inuendoes to intimate his authorship. 1855 J. L. Motley Rise Dutch Republic I. ii. iv. 394 The Cardinal omitted nothing in the way of anecdote or innuendo which could injure the character of the leading nobles. Compounds attributive and in other combinations. ΚΠ 1772 Batchelor (1773) II. 156 He justly termed it an inuendo resolution. 1807 E. S. Barrett Rising Sun III. 66 That thou wert..exhibited to public scorn, by any innuendo-making Attorney-General. Derivatives innuˈendoish adj. rare having the character of innuendo. ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > hint or covert suggestion > [adjective] > innuendo innuendoing1705 innuendoish1860 1860 G. Meredith Evan Harrington xxxviii, in Once a Week 1 Sept. The Countess's confessional thoughts were all inuendoish, aërial; too delicate to live in our shameless tongue. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2022). innuendov. Etymology: < innuendo n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: innuˈendo. 1. intransitive. To utter or make innuendoes. ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > hint or covert suggestion > hint or suggest [verb (intransitive)] > make innuendoes innuendo1852 1705 [implied in: S. Whately in W. S. Perry Hist. Coll. Amer. Colonial Church: Virginia (1870) I. 177 His insinuating and Innuendoing methods. (at innuendoing adj. at innuendo v. Derivatives)]. 1852 R. S. Surtees Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour vi. xxxi. 190 We have heard that there were six mammas..innuendoing, nodding, and hinting to their friends, ‘that, &c.’. 1896 Voice (N.Y.) 8 Oct. 1 I believe that..it is better for a man to ‘say his say’ straight, than to kite and innuendo, no matter how sweetly. 2. transitive. To bring into (some position) by making innuendoes. ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > hint or covert suggestion > hint at or suggest [verb (transitive)] > convey by innuendo > bring into by innuendo innuendo1757 1757 Bp. W. Warburton Lett. (1809) 245 The rogues..would..inuendo me into some disaffection against the government. 3. To convey by innuendo, to insinuate. ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > hint or covert suggestion > hint at or suggest [verb (transitive)] > convey by innuendo innuendo1858 1858 R. S. Surtees Ask Mamma i [He] would inuendo his own version of the story as dexterously as he could. 4. Law. To interpret or construe by attaching an innuendo. ΘΚΠ society > law > jurisprudence > jurisprudence [verb (transitive)] > interpret for legal purposes > interpret by interpolated construction innuendo1851 1851 W. Bagehot Lit. Stud. (1879) I. 349 They take the other side's article piece by piece, and comment on him, and, as they say in libel cases, innuendo him. 1890 Ld. Kinnear in Times 6 Feb. 7/6 What is the ground upon which you innuendo the statement in this letter to mean that he was in point of fact given to drink? Derivatives innuˈendoing adj. making innuendoes. ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > hint or covert suggestion > [adjective] > innuendo innuendoing1705 innuendoish1860 1705 S. Whately in W. S. Perry Hist. Coll. Amer. Colonial Church: Virginia (1870) I. 177 His insinuating and Innuendoing methods. 1839–49 J. Stephen Ess. Eccl. Biogr. (1850) II. 32 This innuendoing special pleader. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1564v.1705
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