hintable
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edithintable (not comparable)
- (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.
- (typography) Having support for hinting.