Both Uses
cryptic
in
Animal Farm
(Edited)
- 'None of you has ever seen a dead donkey,' and the others had to be content with this cryptic answer.
p. 30.7cryptic = secretive or difficult to understand
- Only old Benjamin refused to grow enthusiastic about the windmill, though, as usual, he would utter nothing beyond the cryptic remark that donkeys live a long time.
p. 68.9 *cryptic = difficult to understand
Definitions:
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(1)
(cryptic) secretive or difficult to understand
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)