| 单词 | to hear an inkling |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto hear an inkling (of something) 1. Mentioning in an undertone; a faint or slight mention, report, or rumour; chiefly in phrase to hear an inkling (of something). Obsolete exc. dialect.In the first quot. it was the sound of his own name in a whispered communication that Alexander caught. ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > rumour > [noun] speechc1000 wordOE hearinga1300 opinion1340 talesa1375 famea1387 inklinga1400 slandera1400 noising1422 rumour?a1425 bruit1477 nickinga1500 commoninga1513 roarc1520 murmura1522 hearsay?1533 cry1569 scandal1596 vogue1626 discourse1677 sough1716 circulation1775 gossip1811 myth1849 breeze1879 sound1899 potin1922 dirt1926 rumble1929 skinny1938 labrish1942 lie and story1950 scam1964 he-say-she-say1972 factoid1973 ripple1977 goss1985 a1400–50 Alexander 2968 [Alexander] Herd a nyngkiling of his name, & naytis him to ryse, Buskis him vp at a braide, & fra þe burde rysys. 1533 T. More Apol. xxi, in Wks. 881/2 The tother had heard an incling whiche yet he belieued not, that this man was not much afore hande. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry IV f. xxv He was thither come..before the confederates hearde any inkelyng of his marchyng forward. 1576 A. Fleming tr. Cicero in Panoplie Epist. 11 There was an ynkling, that it wold not be long er you came. 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. vi. xxv. 235 They had scarcely heard any inkling or rumour of hostilitie. 1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words An Inkling of a matter, a small rumour or report, as it were a tinckling, or little sound. a1665 J. Goodwin Πλήρωμα τὸ Πνευματικόv (1670) viii. 230 They had not so much as heard the least inkling of those blessed tidings. 1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. (at cited word) The word is derived by Skinner, from inklincken, to sound within. This sense is still retained in Scotland: as, I heard not an inkling. [So also in mod. Sc.] < as lemmas |
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