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1.
a slight suggestion or indication; hint; intimation: They hadn't given us an inkling of what was going to happen.
2.
a vague idea or notion; slight understanding: They didn't have an inkling of how the new invention worked.
Origin:
1505–15; obsolete inkle to hint (Middle English inklen) + -ing1; akin to Old English inca suspicion
1505–15; obsolete inkle to hint (Middle English inklen) + -ing1; akin to Old English inca suspicion
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Inkling
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- So, from the first inkling of an idea until submission can be a year or two for me.
- But other investors have an inkling that many big programs will eventually be written the open-source way.
- Schumpeter had an inkling of this process but did not go far enough.
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inkling
c.1400, apparently from the gerund of M.E. verb inclen "utter in an undertone" (mid-14c.), which perhaps is related to O.E. inca "doubt, suspicion."
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