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Definition: Hankey |
HankeyNoun1. A square piece of cloth used for wiping the eyes or nose or as a costume accessory. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: HankeySynonyms: handkerchief (n), hankie (n), hanky (n). (additional references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Hankey" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Hankey" is used about 14 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 14 | 93,893 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "hankey" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Hankey | Last name | 400 | 21,541 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "hankey": Hankey-pank, Hankey-pankey. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
mr hankey | 51 |
hankey | 7 |
hankey pankey | 5 |
hankey mr picture | 5 |
code hankey | 4 |
hankey ted | 4 |
hankey mr park south | 4 |
hankey mr pic | 2 |
code gay hankey | 2 |
hankey mister | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "hankey"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | dallavere (fix, hankey-pankey, hanky panky, racket), batakçillëk (hankey-pankey, hanky panky, monkey business). (various references) | |
Arabic | حماقة (blindness, brainlessness, brutishness, crap, doltishness, dumbness, emptiness, fatuity, fatuousness, fat-wittedness, feeblemindedness, folly, foolery, gaffe, hankey-pankey, hanky panky, idiocy, imbecility, insanity, nonsense, rot, silliness, stupidity, thick-wittedness, tomfoolery, unwisdom, weak-mindedness), إحتيال (cheat, cheating, embezzlement, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, gyp, hankey-pankey, hanky panky, humbug, hustle, jugglery, knavery, racket, rascality, roguery, swindle, victimization), شعوذة (hankey-pankey, hanky panky, jugglery, juggling, magic, quackery, sorcery, voodoo, witchery), دجل شعوزة (hankey-pankey, hanky panky), دجل (charlatanry, delusion, fake, fraud, hankey-pankey, hanky panky, imposture, lie, quackery). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | шарлатания (hankey-pankey, 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, hankey-pankey, 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 (hankey-pankey, hanky panky, hanky-panky), pletky (hankey-pankey, hanky panky), laškování (dalliance, hankey-pankey, hanky panky), fokus-pokus (hankey-pankey, hanky panky), èachry (hankey-pankey, hanky panky). (various references) | |
French | imposture (hankey-pankey), escroquerie (hankey-pankey). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ankeyhay.(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, hankey-pankey, 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 (hankey-pankey, hanky panky, hanky-panky). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | hokus-pokus (hankey-pankey, hanky panky, hokey-pokey), podvala (fraud, gouge, hankey-pankey, hanky panky, hoax, hokum, humbug, imposture, jew's pitch, jiggery pokery, plant, swindle). (various references) | |
Swedish | hemligt förhållande (hankey-pankey, hanky panky, intrigue), smussel (hankey-pankey, hanky panky, underhand practices). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-h-k-n-y" | |
-1 letter: hanky, hyena. | |
-2 letters: ankh, haen, hake, hank, kane, khan, yank, yeah, yean. | |
-3 letters: ane, any, aye, hae, hay, hen, hey, kae, kay, kea, ken, key, nae, nah, nay, yah, yak, yea, yeh, yen. | |
-4 letters: ae, ah, an, ay, eh, en, ha, he, ka, na, ne, ya, ye. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-h-k-n-y" | |
+1 letter: hackney. | |
+2 letters: hackneys. | |
+3 letters: hackneyed. | |
+4 letters: hackneying, johnnycake. | |
+5 letters: johnnycakes, thanklessly, unhackneyed. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 61 6E 6B 65 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... .- -. -.- . -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01100001 01101110 01101011 01100101 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H a n k e y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0061 006E 006B 0065 0079 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)426780777191 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Names: Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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