Usage of "double entendre"

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Wording that is devised to be understood in two ways.

Ús de double entendre en anglès

She willed away the annoyingly delicious shimmer caused by his double entendre. 
 Bulletproof bride 

I grinned, but he didn't seem to have noticed the double entendre. 
 Storm front 

It is as likely to produce a double entendre as a double bogey. 
 The Irish Times 

A double entendre is supposed to be located in there somewhere. 
 Man in the Middle 

Zip when it comes to double entendre, and I have tried. 
 Heat Rises 

A blush touched my cheeks when I realized the double entendre. 
 Gentlemen prefer succubi 

See what the fuss was about in this wonderful homage to the double entendre. 
 The Guardian 

This was no conventional-ifthe double entendre may be permitted-demonstration 
 Theodore Roosevelt and His Times: A Chronicle of the Progressive... 

Far from obscenity, therefore, do not so much as touch upon the double entendre. 
 Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 4 

Think of phrases like double entendre and à la mode. 
 The Irish Times 

We used to have to traffic in double entendre because we were on a network. 
 Reuters 

Yes, it's my name, but the double entendre-thatI'm full of wisdom-hasnever really applied. 
 The Storyteller 

They both roared at the double entendre of kid. 
 Terminal Compromise 

For once the morbid double entendre was completely unconscious. 
 Book of shadows 

Somehow this too was a kind of double entendre. 
 The whole world: a novel 

We were currently in a strange place, filled with double entendre and unresolved sexual tension. 
 Hard eight 

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Translations for double entendre

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Double entendre a través del temps

Double entendre per variant geogràfica

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Significats de double entendre en anglès