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Professor Spevack lists that final blend word under Communication (subgroup Pseudo foreign), along with 36 other tongue-twisters, among them, oscorbidulchos and kerelybonto.
According to Professor Spevack, the word hint has no connotation of invitation or covert suggestion: it simply means cue or suggestion; but should not be construed in the modern sense of innuendo, or sly, or teasing, which it came to mean by the end of the 18th century.
In the merest quibble, the word limbeck ( Macbeth , I, 7) is missing from Professor Spevack's compendium, although it appears to be standard usage in most editions of Macbeth.
In Professor Spevack's concise (6 pp.) and witty Preface, he defines his broader purpose in compiling this treasury of Shakespeare's idiolect as an attempt to mirror, not only the figurative universe of Shakespeare's words, but the literal world of the Elizabethan age as well.
Professor Spevack makes short shrift of the lengthy debate over Hamlet's I know a hawk from a handsaw (II, 2).
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