Both Uses of
innuendo
in
The Great Gatsby
- The bar is in full swing, and floating rounds of cocktails permeate the garden outside, until the air is alive with chatter and laughter, and casual innuendo and introductions forgotten on the spot, and enthusiastic meetings between women who never knew each other's names.
p. 40.7innuendo = things suggested indirectly
- There were three married couples and Jordan's escort, a persistent undergraduate given to violent innuendo, and obviously under the impression that sooner or later Jordan was going to yield him up her person to a greater or lesser degree.
p. 44.8 *innuendo = suggestive sexual humor
Definition:
something suggested indirectly -- (often a negative comment about someone, or sexual humor)