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Meanings of double entendre in English

Russian
двусмысленность
Portuguese
duplo sentido
Spanish
dobles sentidos
Catalan
doble sentit

Wording that is devised to be understood in two ways.

двусмысленность
Usage of double entendre in English
1
She willed away the annoyingly delicious shimmer caused by his double entendre.
Bulletproof bride
2
I grinned, but he didn't seem to have noticed the double entendre.
Storm front
3
It is as likely to produce a double entendre as a double bogey.
The Irish Times
4
A double entendre is supposed to be located in there somewhere.
Man in the Middle
5
Zip when it comes to double entendre, and I have tried.
Heat Rises
6
A blush touched my cheeks when I realized the double entendre.
Gentlemen prefer succubi
7
See what the fuss was about in this wonderful homage to the double entendre.
The Guardian
8
This was no conventional-ifthe double entendre may be permitted-demonstration
Theodore Roosevelt and His Times: A Chronicle of the Progressive...
9
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
10
Think of phrases like double entendre and à la mode.
The Irish Times
11
We used to have to traffic in double entendre because we were on a network.
Reuters
12
Yes, it's my name, but the double entendre-thatI'm full of wisdom-hasnever really applied.
The Storyteller
13
They both roared at the double entendre of kid.
Terminal Compromise
14
For once the morbid double entendre was completely unconscious.
Book of shadows
15
Somehow this too was a kind of double entendre.
The whole world: a novel
16
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
Portuguese
duplo sentido
Double entendre through the time
Double entendre across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Less common