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inkle

/ˈɪŋkl̩/

inkle verb: to hint at; disclose.

Verb

inkle (third-person singular simple present inkles, present participle inkling, simple past and past participle inkled)

  1. (rare, transitive) To hint at; disclose.
  2. (rare, transitive) To have a hint or inkling of; divine.

Noun

inkle (countable and uncountable, plural inkles)

  1. Narrow linen tape, used for trimmings or to make shoelaces
    • COSTARD - '… What's the price of this inkle?'c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...

inkle meaning in Urdu

inkle in Urdu

نواڑ, پٹی

Forms of inkle

Verb
third-person singular presentinkles
present participleinkling
past participleinkled
pastinkled
Noun
pluralinkles
alternative formincle

Origin of inkle

From Middle English inklen, inclen (“to give an inkling of, hint at, mention, utter in an undertone”), derived from inke (“apprehension, misgiving”), from Old English inca (“doubt, suspicion”), from Proto-West Germanic *inkō, from Proto-Germanic *inkô (“ache, regret”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eng- (“illness”). Cognate with Old Frisian jinc (“angered”), Old Norse ekki (“pain, grief”), Norwegian ekkje (“lack, pity”).

Apparently from earlier *ingle, perhaps from an incorrect division of lingle, lingel.

Words that rhyme with inkle

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Questions about inkle

What does inkle mean?
Inkle means to hint at; disclose.
What is inkle in Urdu?
Inkle in Urdu is نواڑ, پٹی. See Inkle meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is inkle?
Inkle can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce inkle?
Inkle is pronounced /ˈɪŋkl̩/.
What is the past tense of inkle?
The past tense of inkle is inkled.

Words near inkle in the dictionary

  1. inkjet
  2. inkjet printer
  3. inkjet printers
  4. inkjets
  5. inkjettable
  6. inkle
  7. inkled
  8. inkles
  9. inkless
  10. inklessly
  11. inklessness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: inkle (page history and authors); inkle (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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