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- He listened while Charley and Orchid giggled cryptically about things which barred him out and made him feel a hundred years old: references to Mamie and Earl, and a violent "Yeh, that's all right, but any time you see me dancing with her you just tell me about it, will yuh!†
Chpt 21cryptically = with meaning that is difficult or impossible to understand
- But the rapture of being allowed to work twenty-four hours a day without leaving an experiment at its juiciest moment to creep home for dinner, of plunging with Terry into arguments as cryptic as theology and furious as the indignation of a drunken man, carried him along, and he felt himself growing sinewy.†
Chpt 40 *cryptic = secretive or difficult to understand
Definitions:
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(cryptic) secretive or difficult to understand
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)