The Only Use of
innuendo
in
Moby Dick
- I saw that under the mask of these half humorous innuendoes, this old seaman, as an insulated Quakerish Nantucketer, was full of his insular prejudices, and rather distrustful of all aliens, unless they hailed from Cape Cod or the Vineyard.†
Chpt 16-18
Definition:
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(innuendo) something suggested indirectly -- (often a negative comment about someone, or sexual humor)