double entendre

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /dubl ɑ̃tɑ̃ːdɹ/|/dʌbəl ɒnˈtɒndɹə/    美 /dʌbəl ɑnˈtɑndrə/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A phrase that has two meanings, especially where one is innocent and literal, the other risqué, bawdy, or ironic; an innuendo. rhetoric
    — Avoid all equivocal expressions, usually denominated double entendre; they are certain proofs of a mean and indelicate mind.

词形变化

double entendres plural doubles entendres nonstandard,plural double entendre nonstandard,plural

词源

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.
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