List of synonyms from "Douay Bible" to synonyms from "double whammy"
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- Douay Bible
- Double
- Double agent
- Double back
- Double boiler
- Double-check
- Double cross
- Double-cross
- Double-crosser
- Double-dealer
- Double-dealing
- Double Dutch
- Double entendre
- Double-entendre
- Double-gaited
- Double life
- Double meaning
- Double take
- Double talk
- Double-talk
- Double time
- Double-time
- Double trouble
- Double whammy
Definition of the day : « double-entendre »
- As in double entendre : noun play on words
- As in ambiguity : noun uncertainty of meaning
- It was not a double-entendre, but a mot of triple ambiguity.
- Extract from : « The Scalp Hunters » by Mayne Reid
- A double-entendre is designed here, and the same is often to be found in old plays.
- Extract from : « A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 10 (of 15) » by Various
- This double-entendre was originally published in a Philadelphia newspaper a hundred years ago.
- Extract from : « The Queer, the Quaint and the Quizzical » by Frank H. Stauffer
- The double-entendre of Telo with Mentula is evident, and makes clear the apology to Venus.
- Extract from : « The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus » by Caius Valerius Catullus
- Then there is double-entendre, implying a secondary meaning of doubtful delicacy.
- Extract from : « Society for Pure English, Tract 5 » by Society for Pure English
- Though a good fellow and a wisely humorous one, he seldom said any thing whose cleverness lay in a double-entendre.
- Extract from : « The Knickerbocker, Vol. 57, No. 1, January 1861 » by Various
- No double-entendre was intended, but Ruth's thoughts gave one miserable bound to Arnold.
- Extract from : « Other Things Being Equal » by Emma Wolf
- It is not its political significance that makes it diverting, but the double-entendre therein.
- Extract from : « Paris under the Commune » by John Leighton
- It dealt in private scandal and ribaldry, only the more piquant for its pretty flimsy veil of double-entendre.
- Extract from : « The Paris Sketch Book of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh » by William Makepeace Thackeray