in-referencen.
A reference understood by only a limited group of people. Cf. in-joke n.
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the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > unintelligibility > depth, obscurity > [noun] > instance of
subtletya1387
obscurity1495
difficulty?1504
ambage1520
profundities1582
abstrusity1632
concavity1650
mysterious1836
oracularity1840
Pickwickianism1860
in-reference1967
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > keeping from knowledge > hidden or indirect meaning > [noun] > understood by a few
in-reference1967
1967 Punch 15 Feb. 243/2 The pieces..have clearly journeyed from a lost civilisation, although..in-references to..period West End lions, have been omitted.
1968 Listener 26 Sept. 421/2 Peel's linking comments are liberally sprinkled with in-references to musicians and to long-playing records destined, one suspects, for infinitesimal sales.
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n.1967- free-footed
- free-for-all
- free-form
- free-franchised
- free-free
- free-garmented
- free-given
- free-going
- free-gracian
- free-growing
- free-grown
- free-hand
- free-handed
- free-handedly
- free-handedness
- free-handler
- free-handling
- free-hanging
- free-hearted
- free-heartedly
- free-heartedness
- free-list
- free-liver
- free-living
- free-loveism