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Definition: Hanky |
HankyNoun1. 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. |
Date "hanky" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1908. (references) |
Synonyms: HankySynonyms: handkerchief (n), hankey (n), hankie (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Clothing | Pocket handkerchief, hanky, hankie. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Hanky |
| English words defined with "hanky": hanky panky. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Don't want any hanky panky. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) In lieu of a parachute, here's a hanky. (Andromeda; writing credit: John Cranna) | |
Lyrics | Kiss me here, touch me there, hanky panky... ("Barbie Girl"; performing artist: Aqua) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Hanky Panky Card (1907) A Little Bit of Hanky Panky (1984) Hanky Panky (1982) | |
Song Titles | Hanky Panky (performing artist: Tommy James and The Shondells) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Hanky" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Hanky" is used about 69 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 (singular) | 100% | 69 | 40,280 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "hanky": hanky panky. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "hanky": hanky-panky. | |
Ending with "hanky": know-hanky. | |
| 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 |
hanky panky | 154 |
mr hanky | 61 |
code hanky | 51 |
hanky | 31 |
hanky panky.com | 22 |
code gay hanky | 11 |
hanky panky lingerie | 10 |
hanky bonnet | 8 |
hanky panky school | 7 |
hanky mr park south | 6 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "hanky"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | shami hundësh (handkerchief, hankie, kerchief, nose rag, pullicate, snot-rag). (various references) | |
Arabic | منديل (handkerchief, headgear, kerchief, neckerchief, wipe, wiper), محرمة (handkerchief). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | шалче (cravat, kerchief, neckerchief, overlay, scarf), кърпа за коса. (various references) | |
Czech | kapesník (handkerchief, hankie, kerchief), šáteèek (hankie). (various references) | |
French | mouchoir (handkerchief). (various references) | |
German | Taschentüchlein. (various references) | |
Greek | καλόσ (fair, good, kind, nice, well off), μαντίλι (handkerchief). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מטפחת אף (handkerchief). (various references) | |
Hungarian | zsebkendõ (handkerchief, nose rag). (various references) | |
Italian | fazzoletto (handkerchief, hankie). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 誤"化し (cheating, deception, hanky-panky, juggling). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | "まかし (cheating, deception, hanky-panky, juggling). (various references) | |
Manx | cluigid (artifice, chicanery, craftiness, deceit, hanky-panky, sublety). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ankyhay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | trapaça (chouse, dodge, graft, hanky panky, hocus pocus, hokum, jiggle, juggle, trick, trickery), desejo ardente (hanky panky, hunger, thirst, yearning). (various references) | |
Romanian | batistã (bandana, handkerchief, kerchief, nose rag, wipe). (various references) | |
Russian | носовой платок (handkerchief, hankie, nose rag, noserag, snot-rag, wipe, wiper). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | maramica (bandanna, handkerchief, lachrymatory, napkin, tunica). (various references) | |
Spanish | pañuelo (bandana, bandanna, fichu, handkerchief, kerchief, neckerchief, neckpiece, nose rag, scarf, Square). (various references) | |
Swedish | näsduk (handkerchief, hankie). (various references) | |
Turkish | mendil (handkerchief, hankie, noserag, rag). (various references) | |
Ukranian | носова хусточка (nose rag, nose-wipe, wipe, wiper). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | khăn mùi soa (kerchief). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Hanky" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dhenki, hacky, han, hanc, Hancy, Haniya, hanki, hankly, hankyu, hansy, hanty, hany, Harnby, henki, hiky, hinkie, Hinku, hinky, honki, honkie, hunkey, Hunkie, Jankyn, manky, phancy, wanky, yanky, zanky. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "hanky" (pronounced ha"ngkē) |
| 4 | -a" ng k ē | cranky, lanky. |
| 3 | -ng k ē | chunky, clunky, dinky, donkey, funky, honky, hunky, inky, junkie, junky, kinky, monkey, Pinkie, pinky, punky, slinky, spunky, stinky, swanky. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-h-k-n-y" | |
-1 letter: ankh, hank, khan, yank. | |
-2 letters: any, hay, kay, nah, nay, yah, yak. | |
-3 letters: ah, an, ay, ha, ka, na, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-h-k-n-y" | |
+2 letters: hackney. | |
+3 letters: gymkhana, hackneys. | |
+4 letters: gymkhanas, hackneyed, knavishly, thinkably. | |
+5 letters: hackneying, johnnycake, mythmaking, prankishly, thankfully, unshakably. | |
| 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 79 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... .- -. -.- -.--. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01100001 01101110 01101011 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H a n k y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0061 006E 006B 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)4267807791 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Derivations 12. Rhymes | 13. Anagrams 14. Orthography 15. Bibliography |
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