innuendo

• (archaic) inuendo

From the Latin innuendō (“by nodding”), ablative singular form of innuendum (“a nodding”), gerund of innuō (“I give a nod”).

• IPA^(key): /ˌɪnjuˈɛndəʊ/
• Rhymes: -ɛndəʊ

innuendo (plural innuendoes or innuendos or innuendis)

1. A derogatory hint or reference to a person or thing. An implication, intimation or insinuation.

   She made a devious innuendo about her husband, who was embarrassed.

2. (logic) A rhetorical device with an omitted, but obvious conclusion, made to increase the force of an argument.
3. (law) Part of a pleading in cases of libel and slander, pointing out what and who was meant by the libellous matter or description.

• innuendous

innuendo (third-person singular simple present innuendos, present participle innuendoing, simple past and past participle innuendoed)

1. (transitive, law) To interpret (something libellous or slanderous) in terms of what was implied.
   • 1894, Frank Towers Cooper, A Handbook of the Law of Defamation and Verbal Injury (page 119)

     A statement that a person's presence at a certain club may be "irksome," may be innuendoed that the person is of such bad character as not to be a fit associate with honourable men.

• Innuendo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Innuendo in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

• dunnione

innuendō

1. dative gerund of innuō