Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. colloquial Short form of handkerchief.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Same as handkerchief.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a square piece of cloth used for wiping the eyes or nose or as a costume accessory
Examples
“I have yet to see a politician who is not or has never been involved in hanky panky.”
“The doctor is Lassiter's client, and Lassiter discovers that the good surgeon has been involved in hanky-panky with the doctor's wife.”
“Second I struggle with the hanky debate this time of year too (boo ragweed), the hanky is great for small sniffles but for my shonze needs, hygienically I've got to use the disposable tissue.”
“DeLay is starting to resemble the Madam of a Whorehouse claiming that she had no idea what was going on upstairs, and she’s just shocked, shocked I tell you, to discover that the girls were involved in hanky panky.”
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“And the hanky was a means for him to collect his winning?”
“I'm here to tell you, down here in Jim Crow Heaven, the notion of hanky panky with a black woman worked like a charm.”
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“When I think of him I recall his British pronunciation of 'suit', the way he called a hanky a 'kerchief' and that he was fond of over-sized shaving brushes from Floris.”
“In Humphrey Carpenter's pedestrian biography of Britten, there is a fascinating quote from the adult David Hemmings after the author asked him about what kind of hanky-panky went on between the young Hemmings and the besotted composer while they created "The Turn of The Screw," which premiered in Venice.”
“This is exactly the kind of hanky-panky that people expected when Greenspan stopped publishing the M-3 last March keeping the rest of us in the dark about what was really going on with the money supply.”
“The Royals have servants to pander to their every need, leaving them plenty of time to indulge in every kind of hanky panky you can think of.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘hanky’.
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Handy Words
List of words and phrases referring to the hand, hands, fist, or derivatives of the Latin manus, beginning with left-handed.
left-handed, double-fisted, fisticuffs, handy, right-handed, two-handed, manual, manumission, manuscript, manually, manustupration, manudiction and 164 more...
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UK - slang
fanny, nick, mufti, siphon, mug, smashing, butcher, stick up, knocker, porridge, tit, punter and 208 more...
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Y
What a -Y does to an otherwise common, dull word
zany, waxy, wavy, arty, chewy, bony, boxy, cozy, nosy, foxy, wiry, junky and 321 more...
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Handkerchiefs, etc.
handkerchief, kerchief, veronica, sudary, sudarium, hankie, keverchief, neckcloth, neckerchief, maniple, orarium, bandana and 41 more...
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Fun Words
Words that are fun to say....
gobbledygook, jings, crivens, hullabaloo, wheech, brouhaha, pizzazz, harum-scarum, namby-pamby, pussyfoot, frippery, pitter-patter and 333 more...
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Reading Reading
Words from the works of Peter Reading - at least one from each (except the Schwitters-esque erosions, cut-ups etc).
overbright, pimpled, muskiness, effuse, stoup, maul, unlevel, viscid, perfidious, glibly, aloes, drouth and 449 more...
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Words next
patrimony, cacophony, fearsome, coruscating, coruscating, coruscating, dolomite, dolorous, transdermal, chatty cathy, chatterbox, incessantly and 249 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for hanky.
yarb I notice his specs
are steaming with brine.
He wields a grubby
snot-spattered hanky...
- Peter Reading, 5x5x5x5x5, 1983 Jul 4, 2008
sonofgroucho A handkerchief. Jan 17, 2008