inklingink‧ling /ˈɪŋklɪŋ/ noun [countable usually singular]Word Origin
WORD ORIGINinkling
Origin:
1500-1600 Probably from inkle ‘to say quietly, hint’(1300-1400)
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY►had an inkling
I had an inkling that she was pregnant.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSVERB►give
· Legal records are unique in giving us an inkling of how people of the age saw the world about them.· Not one gave them an inkling of the Whitehall collusion.
a slight idea about something → suspicion: I had an inkling that she was pregnant.inkling of She had absolutely no inkling of what was going on.