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▪ I. ‖ innuendo|ɪnjuːˈɛndəʊ|
Also erron. inuendo. Pl. innuendoes, (7–8 -do's, 8–9 -dos).
[L., = ‘by nodding at, pointing to, meaning, intimating’, abl. gerund of innuĕre to nod to, signify, mean; in med.L. used to introduce a parenthetic clause.]
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1. The med.L. formula used esp. in legal documents to introduce a parenthetical explanation of the precise reference of a preceding noun or pronoun; = meaning, to wit, that is to say.
1564Child-Marr. 123 What-soeuer thinge it is, that knave your sonne—innuendo this deponentes sonne—made it, & brought it to the Church. 1656Blount Glossogr., Innuendo, is a Law term, most used in Declarations and other pleadings..to declare and design the person or thing which was named incertain before; as to say, he (innuendo the Plaintiff) is a Theef. 1701De Foe Let. To How in Misc. (1703) 343 ‘But when Religion comes to be the Mode of a Country, so many Painted Hypocrites, there's the Word, get into the Church, that Guile is not to be seen till it arrive to Apostacy’. Pray, Sir, who can these Painted Hypocrites refer to, that you should say, Innuendo, All those that are not of my Party, or that are not so stingy as I?
II. Hence, as n.
2. The parenthetical explanation or specification itself; an interpolated or appended explanation of, or construction put upon a word, expression, or passage; esp. the injurious meaning or signification alleged to be conveyed by words not per se injurious or actionable, which, in an action for libel or slander, is usually introduced into the record and issue by the words ‘meaning thereby’, after the expressions alleged to have been used.
1701De Foe Let. to How in Misc. 341, I cannot find one Word in the whole Book which can, no, not with the help of an Innuendo, be so much as pretended to look that way. 1714Scroggs Courts-Leet (ed. 3) 196 No Innuendo can make such Words actionable. a1715Burnet Own Time II. iii. 571 This, by an inuendo, was said to be an evidence to prove, that he [Sidney] was in a plot against the king's life. a1726Gilbert Cases Law & Equity (1760) 116 That to tie up the Meaning of the first Words to Bankruptcy, the Plaintiff had laid an Innuendo. 1753Stewart's Trial 72 We have seen doubtful actions by the help of innuendoes construed criminally.
b. The words or expressions thus parenthetically explained, or needing explanation; a blank to be filled up with the name of the person to whom it is alleged to refer.
1755Chesterfield in World No. 105 ⁋11 By publishing the names at full length in your paper, I humbly conceive, said he, that you avoid all the troublesome consequences of innuendo's. 1769–72Junius Lett. Pref. 11 He told the jury..that they had nothing to determine, except the fact of printing and publishing, and whether or no the blanks or inuendoes were properly filled up in the information. 1802Edin. Rev. Oct. 106 An indictment for a libel, with all the inuendos filled up.
3. An oblique hint, indirect suggestion; an allusive remark concerning a person or thing, esp. one of a depreciatory kind.
1678R. L'Estrange Seneca's Mor. (1702) 517 His Innuendo's are infinitely more Instructive than his Words at length. 1694Collier Ess. Mor. Subj. i. (1709) 39 What a broad Inuendo is here upon the Beneficed Clergy? 1732Pol. Ballads (1860) II. 234 For Sir Philip well knows That his innuendoes Will serve him no longer in verse or in prose. 1788Burns Let. to Mrs. Dunlop 13 Nov., They so intoxicated me with their sly insinuations and delicate inuendos of compliment, that if it had not been for a lucky recollection..I had certainly looked upon myself as a person of no small consequence. 1850W. Irving Goldsmith xxxi. 305 [He] sought by nods and winks and inuendoes to intimate his authorship. 1855Motley Dutch Rep. ii. iv. (1866) 200 The Cardinal omitted nothing in the way of anecdote or inuendo, which could injure the character of the leading nobles.
4. attrib. and Comb.
1772Batchelor (1773) II. 156 He justly termed it an inuendo resolution. 1807E. S. Barrett Rising Sun III. 66 That thou wert..exhibited to public scorn, by any innuendo-making Attorney-General.
Hence innuˈendoish a., having the character of innuendo. rare.
1861G. Meredith Evan Harrington xxxviii, The Countess's confessional thoughts were all inuendoish, aërial; too delicate to live in our shameless tongue.
▪ II. innuˈendo, v.
[f. prec. n.]
1. intr. To utter or make innuendoes.
1705[see innuendoing]. 1852R. S. Surtees Sponge's Sp. Tour (1893) 192 We have heard that there were six old ladies..innuendoing, nodding, and hinting to their friends, ‘that, etc.’. 1896Voice (N.Y.) 8 Oct. 1, I believe that..it is better for a man to ‘say his say’ straight, than to kite and innuendo, no matter how sweetly.
2. trans. To bring into (some position) by making innuendoes.
1757Warburton Lett. (1809) 245 The rogues..would..inuendo me into some disaffection against the government.
3. To convey by innuendo, to insinuate.
1858R. S. Surtees Ask Mamma i, [He] would inuendo his own version of the story as dexterously as he could.
4. Law. To interpret or construe by attaching an innuendo.
1851Bagehot Lit. Stud. (1879) I. 349 They take the other side's article piece by piece, and comment on him, and, as they say in libel cases, innuendo him. 1890Ld. Kinnear in Times 6 Feb. 7/6 What is the ground upon which you innuendo the statement in this letter to mean that he was in point of fact given to drink?
Hence innuˈendoing ppl. a., making innuendoes.
1705S. Whately in W. S. Perry Hist. Coll. Amer. Col. Ch. I. 177 His insinuating and Innuendoing methods. 1839–49Sir J. Stephen Eccl. Biog. (1850) II. 32 This innuendoing special pleader. |