[ˈɪŋklɪŋ], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a slight knowledge or suspicion; a hint
(e.g: the records give us an inkling of how people saw the world)


Phrases:

Origin:
late Middle English (in the sense ‘a mention in an undertone, a hint’): from the rare verb inkle ‘utter in an undertone’, of unknown origin