Signifyin', or signifyin(g) (vernacular), is a form of wordplay. It is a practice in African-American culture involving a verbal strategy of indirection that exploits the gap between the denotative and figurative meanings of words.
双语例句
1
I think it's on page 1889 that he gives us that expression, which I think you should keep hold of which I would compare very closely with what Henry Louis Gates calls "signifyin'."