Innuendo /(?)/

In·nu·en·do

Innuendo

n.

pl. Innuedoes

  1. An oblique hint; a remote allusion or reference, usually derogatory to a person or thing not named; an insinuation.
    Mercury . . . owns it a marriage by an innuendo.
    Pursue your trade of scandal picking; Your innuendoes, when you tell us, That Stella loves to talk with fellows.
  2. An averment employed in pleading, to point the application of matter otherwise unintelligible; an interpretative parenthesis thrown into quoted matter to explain an obscure word or words; -- as, the plaintiff avers that the defendant said that he (innuendo the plaintiff) was a thief. (Law)