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Definitions
Wiktionary
- adj. informal Acting suspiciously; strange, unusual; acting in a manner as if having something to hide, or seemingly crooked.
- adj. informal Suspicious (of something).
- adj. informal, derogatory Weird; nonstandard.
Etymologies
- Possibly from obsolete Scots hink, from Old Norse hinka (to limp or hobble), probably not from Old English inca ("doubt"). Possibly from hank ("a loop or coil or anything that curbs or restrains"). Possibly from African-American usage: hincty or hinkty. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“That $96,000 tax-free gift to Hampton's parents -- supposedly made "out of concern for the well-being of longtime family friends during a difficult time" -- was already "hinky," as Letterman might say.”
Alafair Burke: Sex, Lies, and Band-Aids: Why Ensign and Polanski Should Have Pulled a Letterman
“LiveforFilms the whole Felicia Hardy as The Vulturess just seems kind of hinky to me.”
John Malkovich and Anne Hathaway as Spider-Man 4’s Vulture and… Vulturess? | /Film
“As for chaperones - I have a female doctor now, but I'd probably only request something if things felt "hinky" to me.”
“And I'd probably NOT go to a GYN who made me feel "hinky" anyway.”
“People get "hinky" over 13 because it's the traditional number of witches in a coven.”
“Not sure what "hinky" means but it sounds slightly painful, like a hickey?”
“But the interface is kind of hinky, and frankly the reliability just isn't there.”
“GERAGOS: I don't -- the whole thing is kind of hinky, I mean, not that I don't enjoy, frankly, seeing a Republican who is anti-gay, on one hand, getting caught in a bathroom.”
“And I betcha ten buckaroos you use the word "hinky" this week ...”
“Org - RapidRecon: Tale of Two Terror Attacks In Pakistan Droning on - Things are kind of hinky in Warzirastan for the bad guys.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘hinky’.
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Inky
One of those nutso navel-fluff ruzuzu lists.
Inky, stinky, kinky, pinky, dinky, minky, tiddly-winky, slinky, clinky, ratfinky, kitchen-sinky, Hinky Dinky and 59 more...
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Loaded Dice
Off the straight and narrow; less than straight arrow.
chicanery, sophistry, pilfer, rook, diddle, fleece, grift, poach, rustle, pinch, abscond, steal and 140 more...
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Winter's Bone vocabulary
Study list of difficult words from Daniel Woodrell's novel Winter's Bone. In reverse order: start at the bottom to see words from the beginning of the novel!
plaid, lazy susan, lope, furtive, dour, scamper, hard-boiled, implacable, dainty, stomp, resignation, crank and 138 more...
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neologisms I like
nimrod, snarky, painbow, interrobang, hoser, kooky, craptastic, preggers, asshat, brainiac, shoegaze, skanker-sore and 146 more...
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Because I like Them: G --- H
gossypiboma, gymnophoria, ginglyform, goobermensch, gomeril, gump, grinagog, gorbelly, gound, hamesucken, hypobulic, humicubate and 93 more...
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micellaneous
hinky, heath, peat, cicatrix, lark, chateau, gapeseed, obstreperous, mixen, addax, syllogism, colligate and 100 more...
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myroblyte's Words
myroblyte, cephalophore, reliquary, pyx, ganache, lord, quill, gallant, quixotic, finial, macaronic, hang fire and 73 more...
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koan's list
bodacious, zen, outlier, halcyon, vestige, scuttlebutt, hinky, dally, hail, 難�?��??�?��?�, zocalo, parameterisation and 5 more...
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gracetherein's Words
fratricide, polyamorous, triage, pedant, hinky, inundate, dearth, segue, dipsomaniac, gravid, portcullis, mamihlapinatapai and 8 more...
Tweets
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yarb I like how it rhymes with kinky, and the first two examples are from a publication titled "Performing the Pelvic Exam". Nov 30, 2010
yarb How strange that I've never come across this before! Nov 30, 2010