hint

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  1. noun A slight indication or intimation: wanted to avoid any hint of scandal.
  2. noun A brief or indirect suggestion; a tip: stock-trading hints.
  3. noun A statement conveying information in an indirect fashion; a clue: Give me a hint about the big news.
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  • If you're stumped, a hint is available on every card with the loss of one space in your move for that help.
  • He had finally taken the hint, she thought, though the words she had used to him could hardly be classified as a hint. —  Balogh, Mary - The Notorious Rake
  • The picture that was given as the hint is the one above. —  Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now
  • It was there as a hint, the hint to the answer to the ending that everyone's been yelling on the internet about as of late. —  Design daily news
  • I listen from the car to work just about anywhere, somtimes even more than 3x per episode, anyway keep up the good job guys, and hey I think its time to increase the casting frequency …. * hint* —  LightSource Studio Photography Podcast
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trace ·  suggestion ·  sign ·  indication ·  spite ·  expression ·  lack ·  aware ·  evidence ·  impression ·  bite ·  gesture

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hint:   hints ·  hinted ·  hinting
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Etymologies (4)

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  1. Probably from Middle English hinten, henten, to catch, grasp, from Old English hentan.

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  1. from Middle English hinten, hynten (def. 1), variant of henten, lay hold of, seize, catch: see hent. The form hent has become obsolete in English, while the variant hint, in a deflected sense, partly due to the noun hint, opportunity, etc., has assumed the appearance of another word, the etymology of which has been sought elsewhere. The relation of hint to hent is like that of clinch to clench or of glint to glent.
  2. Early modern English also hynt; a variant of hent, n.; from the verb.
  3. By apheresis from ahint.
 

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