insinuendoes

insinuendoes

English

Alternative forms

• insinuendos

Noun

insinuendoes

1. plural of insinuendo
   • 1894 Charles Carleton Coffin, Dan of Millbrook: A story of American life, Estes and Lauriat, p100

     "None of your insinuendoes, sah, if you please; and allow me to say that you would be putrified with amazement, sah, if you were to see de [sic] way we do thing at our house, sah."

   • 1962 Ronald David Laing, The self and others: further studies in sanity and madness, Tavistock Publications, p154

     One paranoid patient's expression expression for statements of this kind was 'insinuendoes.'