different between inkling vs insinuation

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /???kl??/
• Hyphenation: inkl?ing

Etymology 1

From Middle English ningkiling, nyngkiling (“hint, slight indication; mention, whisper”), and then either:

• possibly a variant of nikking, nyckyng (“hint, slight indication; mention, whisper”), possibly from nikken (“to mark (a text) for correction (?)”) + -ing, -inge (suffix forming gerunds from verbs); or
• from inklen (“to mention (in a low voice); to tell (the truth)”) [and other forms] + -ing, -inge; inklen may be derived from inca, inke (“dread, fear; doubt; danger, risk (?)”), from Old English inca (“doubt, uncertainty; suspicion; fear; cause for complaint, grievance, grudge, ill-will, offence; quarrel; occasion, opportunity”), from Proto-Germanic *inkô (“ache; grief; regret”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?eng-, *yen?- (“illness”). The English word would then be analysable as inkle +? -ing.

Sense 3 (“desire, inclination”) may have been influenced by incline (“to tend to believe or do something”) or French enclin (“inclined, prone”).

Noun

inkling (plural inklings)

1. Usually preceded by forms of to give: a slight hint, implication, or suggestion given.

   Synonym: intimation
2. Often preceded by forms of to get or to have: an imprecise idea or slight knowledge of something; a suspicion.
3. (Britain, dialectal) A desire, an inclination.

Translations

Etymology 2

From inkle +? -ing.

Verb

inkling

1. present participle of inkle

References

Anagrams

• kilning, klining, linking

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French insinuation, from Old French, from Latin insinuatio, from ?nsinu? (“to push in, creep in, steal in”), from in (“in”) + sinus (“a winding, bend, bay, fold, bosom”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?s?nju?e???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

insinuation (countable and uncountable, plural insinuations)

1. The act or process of insinuating; a creeping, winding, or flowing in.
2. The act of gaining favor, affection, or influence, by gentle or artful means; — formerly used in a good sense, as of friendly influence or interposition.
3. The art or power of gaining good will by a prepossessing manner.
4. That which is insinuated; a hint; a suggestion, innuendo or intimation by distant allusion
   • slander may be conveyed by insinuations.

Related terms

• insinuate
• insinuator

Translations

Further reading

• insinuation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• insinuation in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

French

Etymology

From Old French, borrowed from Latin ?nsinu?ti?, ?nsinu?ti?nem.

Pronunciation

Noun

insinuation f (plural insinuations)

1. insinuation

Related terms

• insinuer

Further reading

• “insinuation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).