innuendo

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

INNUEND'O, noun [Latin from innuo, to nod; in and nuo.] 1. An oblique hint; a remote intimation or reference to a person or thing not named. Mercury--owns it a marriage by innuendo 2. In law, a word used to point out the precise person.
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