insinuendo
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prettygoodwordinsinuendo (in-sin-yoo-EN-doh) - n., insinuating innuendo.
Formed, obviously, by combining the two words. This is not, as you might think, a recent Internet-fueled coinage -- rather, it's another colorful 19th century Americanism, coined in an 1871 play by William R Emerson, then recoined by an anonymous South Carolina legislator in 1885, after which it caught on and had a brief vogue for about a generation before tapering off into rarely (but continuously) used.
---L.
Formed, obviously, by combining the two words. This is not, as you might think, a recent Internet-fueled coinage -- rather, it's another colorful 19th century Americanism, coined in an 1871 play by William R Emerson, then recoined by an anonymous South Carolina legislator in 1885, after which it caught on and had a brief vogue for about a generation before tapering off into rarely (but continuously) used.
---L.
