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Aug 2, 2007

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Words with double connections

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diplopia
didymous
mackle
double entendre
doppelganger

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double entendre

noun: A word or phrase used in a manner that it can be interpreted in two ways, especially when one of the meanings is risqué.

[From obsolete French, literally double meaning.]

"Without double-entendre British comedy would be bereft. A short selection from a week's viewing: 'You should have heard the gasps when I showed my marrow to the Women's Institute'."
Thomas Sutcliffe; In Search of Intelligent Life on Planet Sitcom; The Independent (London, UK); Mar 8, 1996.

See more usage examples of double_entendre in Vocabulary.com's dictionary.

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