INKLING
NOUNS
► INKLE a notion, hint, suspicion, an inkling → 1879 Eng. & Amer. dial.
► ITEM a hint; an inkling; information; a signal; a cue → 1781 Eng. & Amer. dial.
► OBERING a hint, an inkling → 1824 Sc.
► OOM an inkling, suspicion, notion, foreboding → 1880 Sc.
► UMBRAGE a suspicion, hint, inkling, or slight idea of a matter → 1654-66 obs.
VERBS
► MISDOUBT to doubt, to suspect; to fear, to apprehend; to think; to have an inkling or suspicion of → 1877 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► SMOKE to get an inkling of; to smell or suspect a plot, design, etc. → 1608 arch.
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