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HANKEY-PANKEY

Definition: HANKEY-PANKEY

HANKEY-PANKEY

Noun

1. Professional cant; the chatter of conjurers to divert attention from their tricks; hence, jugglery.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Note: Hankey-pankey \Han"key-pan"key\, noun. [Compare to Hocus-pocus.]. (Websters 1913)

Modern Translations: HANKEY-PANKEY

Language Translations for "HANKEY-PANKEY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

dallavere (fix, hanky panky, racket), batakçillëk (hanky panky, monkey business). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏حماقة (blindness, brainlessness, brutishness, crap, doltishness, dumbness, emptiness, fatuity, fatuousness, fat-wittedness, feeblemindedness, folly, foolery, gaffe, hanky panky, idiocy, imbecility, insanity, nonsense, rot, silliness, stupidity, thick-wittedness, tomfoolery, unwisdom, weak-mindedness), ‏إحتيال (cheat, cheating, embezzlement, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, gyp, hanky panky, humbug, hustle, jugglery, knavery, racket, rascality, roguery, swindle, victimization), ‏شعوذة (hanky panky, jugglery, juggling, magic, quackery, sorcery, voodoo, witchery), ‏دجل شعوزة (hanky panky), ‏دجل (charlatanry, delusion, fake, fraud, hanky panky, imposture, lie, quackery). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

шарлатания (hanky panky, sham), измама (bunco, bunko, cheat, chouse, cozenage, cross, deceit, deception, delusion, do, double cross, double dealing, doubling, dupery, falsity, fiddle, flam, foul play, frame up, fraud, gaff, gag, gouge, guile, gyp, hanky panky, have on, hoax, hocus pocus, humbug, imposition, imposture, indirection, jiggery pokery, jockeying, jugglery, kid, lemon, overreach, plant, pretence, put on, rig, rip off, roguery, sell, sellout, sham, shuffle, simulacrum, skin game, spoof, swindle, take in, thimblerig, trickery, twist). (various references)

   

Czech

  

techtle mechtle (hanky panky, hanky-panky), pletky (hanky panky), laškování (dalliance, hanky panky), fokus-pokus (hanky panky), èachry (hanky panky). (various references)

   

French

  

imposture, escroquerie. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ankey-pankeyhay.(various references)

   

Russian 

  

обман (bunco, bunko, cheat, circumvention, cozenage, cram, deceit, deception, dissimulation, do, double cross, double dealing, false pretence, false pretences, foul play, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, fudging, gag, gammon, guile, gyp, hanky panky, hanky-panky, have on, have-on, hokum, humbug, imposture, jugglery, leasing, leg pull, legerdemain, lie, lurk, overreach, skin-game, spoof, swindle, take in, take-in, trick, trickeries, trickery, wile), проделки (hanky panky, hanky-panky). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

hokus-pokus (hanky panky, hokey-pokey), podvala (fraud, gouge, hanky panky, hoax, hokum, humbug, imposture, jew's pitch, jiggery pokery, plant, swindle). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

hemligt förhållande (hanky panky, intrigue), smussel (hanky panky, underhand practices). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "HANKEY-PANKEY"

Words rhyming with "HANKEY-PANKEY" (pronounced 'Han"key-pan"key'): Bedkey, Donkey, latchkey, Stokey, turnkey. (additional references)

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Anagrams: HANKEY-PANKEY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-e-e-h-k-k-n-n-p-y-y"

-5 letters: kneepan.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: HANKEY-PANKEY


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

48 41 4E 4B 45 59 2D 50 41 4E 4B 45 59

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001000 01000001 01001110 01001011 01000101 01011001 00101101 01010000 01000001 01001110 01001011 01000101 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#65 &#78 &#75 &#69 &#89 &#45 &#80 &#65 &#78 &#75 &#69 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0041 004E 004B 0045 0059 002D 0050 0041 004E 004B 0045 0059

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

42354845395915503548453959

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Rhymes
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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