英语词汇“half-word”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	half-word
释义	ˈhalf-word A word or speech which hints or insinuates something, instead of fully asserting it; a hint, suggestion. c1369Chaucer Dethe Blaunche 1022 She wolde not fonde To holde no wight in balaunce By halfe worde ne by countenaunce.1581G. Pettie Guazzo's Civ. Conv. iii. (1586) 161 b, He said..he understood by y⊇ halfe word, what the whole ment.1741Richardson Pamela (1824) I. 118 Only by one rash half-word [he was] exasperated against me.1856Mrs. Browning Aur. Leigh vi. 1224 We must scrupulously hint With half-words, delicate reserves.
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