English Dictionary

innuendo

/ˌɪnjuˈɛndəʊ/

noun

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

He made a subtle innuendo during the conversation.

意味（1）

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

At dinner, a dish of stewed eels made Mr. Higgs a little pensive, and he remarked, that the fair sex slipped through your fingers just like eels. This innuendo was, however, all that disturbed the enjoyment of the day, whose hilarity, as the newspapers say of a public dinner, was prolonged to a late hour.

意味（2）

(logic) A rhetorical device with an omitted, but obvious conclusion, made to increase the force of an argument.

意味（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.