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single entendres

single entendres is the plural of single entendre.

Meaning of single entendre

Noun

single entendre (plural single entendres)

  1. (humorous, rhetoric) A phrase that has a single, often bawdy, meaning and is lacking in subtlety or cleverness.
    • She unintentionally wrote single entendre: a lyric about a dinner menu.1985, Sheila Davis, The Craft of Lyric Writing, page 273

Questions about single entendres

What is single entendres the plural of?
Single entendres is the plural of single entendre.

Words near single entendres in the dictionary

  1. single curves
  2. single data rate
  3. single dispatch
  4. single dispatches
  5. single entendre
  6. single entendres
  7. single eyelid
  8. single eyelids
  9. single father
  10. single fathers
  11. single file

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