This week’s theme
Portmanteaux (blend words)

This week’s words
frenemy
glamp
insinuendo
coopetition
glamazon

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PRONUNCIATION:

(in-sin-yuh-EN-doh)

MEANING:

noun: An assertion or hint that’s disparaging and suggestive.

ETYMOLOGY:

A blend of insinuation + innuendo. Earliest documented use: 1884.

USAGE:

“She said that she wasn’t comparing apples to oranges, she was comparing a big juicy hard ripe red apple to a little shriveled soft one, which is a phrase she often uses back at me. I took all that as an insinuendo about, well, personal things, and quite without basis, by the way.”
Daniel Cross; Coopers Crossing; iUniverse; 2018.

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