triple entendre
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.33 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "In a triple entendre of the highest order, Linnell summarizes the song."
- "Actually, that a triple entendre! And speaking of triple entendres ..."
- "A triple-entendre, if you will; 'purloined', as in out in the open and a way to change the subject title without losing the thread. The third part of the entendre was that anything is new if perspective can be shifted."
- "Pretty much agree with you and Pete on this one... that and the fact that every few months, a few of my friends and I get into a discussion of whether or not one of the verses from 'Grindin' constitutes a proper triple entendre... "Them days I wasn't able/Abel, there was always cane/'caine/Kane" ...good stuff to anger and annoy any literary types you know..."
- "'Tout de suite' is a french phrase meaning in a hurry and pronounced the same as the english 'toot sweet'. Hence it bilingual triple entendre."
Etymology
Pseudo-Gallicism. Based on double entendre.