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Definition: HANKEY-PANKEY |
HANKEY-PANKEYNoun1. Professional cant; the chatter of conjurers to divert attention from their tricks; hence, jugglery. |
Note: Hankey-pankey \Han"key-pan"key\, noun. [Compare to Hocus-pocus.]. (Websters 1913) |
| 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. | ||
| Words rhyming with "HANKEY-PANKEY" (pronounced 'Han"key-pan"key'): Bedkey, Donkey, latchkey, Stokey, turnkey. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-e-h-k-k-n-n-p-y-y" | |
-5 letters: kneepan. | |
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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)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01000001 01001110 01001011 01000101 01011001 00101101 01010000 01000001 01001110 01001011 01000101 01011001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H A N K E Y - P A N K E Y |
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 |
| 1. Definition 2. Translations: Modern 3. Rhymes 4. Anagrams | 5. Orthography 6. Bibliography |
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