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hint

English

Etymology

From Middle English hinten, hynten, variant of henten (to lay hold of, catch), from Old English hentan (to seize, grasp), from Proto-Germanic *hantijan?. More at hent. Related to hunt.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /h?nt/
  • Rhymes: -?nt

Noun

hint (plural hints)

  1. A clue.
  2. A tacit suggestion that avoids a direct statement.
  3. A small, barely detectable amount of.
  4. (computing) Information in a computer-based font that suggests how the outlines of the font's glyphs should be distorted in order to produce, at specific sizes, a visually appealing pixel-based rendering; an instance of hinting.
  5. (obsolete) An opportunity; occasion; fit time.
    • 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 1 scene 2
      I, not remembering how I cried out then, / Will cry it o'er again: it is a hint / That wrings mine eyes to't.

Synonyms

  • (small amount): see also Thesaurus:modicum.

Descendants

Translations

Verb

hint (third-person singular simple present hints, present participle hinting, simple past and past participle hinted)

  1. (intransitive) To suggest tacitly without a direct statement; to provide a clue.
    She hinted at the possibility of a recount of the votes.
  2. (transitive) To bring to mind by a slight mention or remote allusion; to suggest in an indirect manner.
    to hint a suspicion
    • We shall not describe this tragical scene too fully; but we thought ourselves obliged, by that historic integrity which we profess, shortly to hint a matter which we would otherwise have been glad to have spared.
  3. (transitive) To develop and add hints to a font.
    The typographer worked all day on hinting her new font so it would look good on computer screens.

Synonyms

  • See also Thesaurus:allude

Translations

Anagrams

  • Nith, thin, thin'

Danish

Etymology 1

From English hint

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [?hen?d?]

Noun

hint n (singular definite hintet, plural indefinite hint or hints)

  1. hint, clue

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [?hi?nd?], [hind?]

Pronoun

hint

  1. neuter singular of hin

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowing from English hint.

Pronunciation

Noun

hint f or m (plural hints, diminutive hintje n)

  1. hint

Synonyms

  • aanwijzing

See also

  • tip

Verb

hint

  1. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of hinten
  2. imperative of hinten

Hungarian

Etymology

From an unattested stem of unknown origin + -t (causative suffix).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [?hint]
  • Hyphenation: hint
  • Rhymes: -int

Verb

hint

  1. (transitive) to scatter, sprinkle (to cause a substance to fall in fine drops (for a liquid substance) or small pieces (for a solid substance))
    Synonyms: szór, hullat

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • hintés

(With verbal prefixes):

References

Further reading

  • hint in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English hint.

Noun

hint n (definite singular hintet, indefinite plural hint, definite plural hinta or hintene)

  1. a hint
    • 2014, "Grepet av deg" by Sylvia Day, Bastion Forlag ?ISBN [3]

References

  • “hint” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
  • “hint” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English hint.

Noun

hint n (definite singular hintet, indefinite plural hint, definite plural hinta)

  1. a hint

References

  • “hint” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English hunten, from Old English huntian.

Verb

hint

  1. hunt

References

  • Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN

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hant

English

Etymology 1

See haunt.

Noun

hant (plural hants)

  1. (US, colloquial, chiefly African-American Vernacular) A ghost; a supernatural being.
    • 1907, Harold Bell Wright, New York: A.L. Burt, The Shepherd of the Hills, Chapter I, p. 20,[1]
      [] Say, Mister, did you ever see a hant?”
      The gentleman did not understand.
      “A hant, a ghost, some calls ’em,” explained Jed.
    • 1934, Cecile Hulse Matschat, Suwannee River: Strange Green Land, New York: The Literary Guild of America, Chapter Three, p. 52,[2]
      [] he shivered as though a hant had touched him with its ghostly fingers, for night was near and he was alone in a depth of the swamp where he had never been before.
    • 1967, Richard M. Dorson, American Negro Folktales, Greenwich, Connecticut: Fawcett, “Spirits and Hants,” p. 213,[3]
      The term “hant” covers all malevolent and inexplicable sights and sounds. Primarily hants protect buried treasure and linger about ghoulish death spots.
    • 1969, Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Bantam, 1971, Chapter 22, p. 140,[4]
      Naturally, I believed in hants and ghosts and “thangs.” Having been raised by a super-religious Southern Negro grandmother, it would have been abnormal had I not been superstitious.

Etymology 2

Contraction

hant

  1. Pronunciation spelling of hadn’t.

Anagrams

  • -anth, Hnat, Nath, Than, tahn, than

Cimbrian

Etymology

From Middle High German hant, from Old High German hant. Cognate with German Hand, English hand.

Noun

hant f (plural héntediminutive héntle)

  1. (Sette Comuni) hand

Declension

Derived terms

  • drukhan de hénte
  • hàntafa ?

References

  • “hant” in Martalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

Hungarian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [?h?nt]

Noun

hant (plural hantok)

  1. clod (lump of earth)
  2. grave (place of burial)

Declension

Derived terms

  • hantol

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch hant

Noun

hant f

  1. hand
  2. person
  3. side

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

  • Dutch: hand
  • Limburgish: handj
  • Zealandic: and

Further reading

  • “hant”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
  • Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “hant”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN

Old Dutch

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *handu.

Noun

hant f

  1. hand

Inflection

Alternative forms

  • ande (in compounds)

Descendants

  • Middle Dutch: hant
    • Dutch: hand
    • Limburgish: handj
    • Zealandic: and

Further reading

  • “hant”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *handu, whence also Old English hand, Old Norse h?nd, Gothic ???????????????????????? (handus).

Noun

hant f

  1. hand

Declension

Descendants

  • Middle High German: hant
    • Bavarian: Hond
      Cimbrian: hant
      Mòcheno: hònt
    • German: Hand
    • Hunsrik: Hand
    • Luxembourgish: Hand
    • Vilamovian: haond
    • Yiddish: ?????? (hant)

References

  1. Köbler, Gerhard, Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch, (6. Auflage) 2014

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