double entendre

1. 1.

   an ambiguity with one interpretation that is indelicate

   Broaderambiguity

Questions about double entendre

What does double entendre mean?

double entendre means "an ambiguity with one interpretation that is indelicate".

Is double entendre a common word?

double entendre is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.