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hintable

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English

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Etymology

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From hint +‎ -able.

Adjective

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hintable (not comparable)

  1. (rare) That can be hinted at, or alluded to.
    • 1936, The New Yorker, volume 12, page 19:
      And as for boils, as for boils, well, as for boils —
      Well, my pen recoils,
      Because people's invariable humorous remarks about other people's boils are invariably unprintable,
      And most of them are not even hintable.
  2. (typography) Having support for hinting.

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