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Definition of "hankey" [hankey]

  • A square piece of cloth used for wiping the eyes or nose or as a costume accessory (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

Use "hankey" in a sentence
  • "You were watched all the time and if a girl danced too close to a man or a man danced too close to a girl or they saw any kind of hankey-pankey going on, don't think that they didn't come right in and make a scene about it!"
  • "Anthropomorphized? wait, thats mr.hankey. zeigeist, baller!"
  • "It was I who added counters to his stakes, just once or twice, and not nearly as often as they said - why, I was quite shocked when I read in the papers last week, the kind of evidence they were giving, even Mrs Wilson - dear me, if there had been that much hankey-pankey with the counters the whole world must have seen, the Prince and everyone!"