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Definition of hanky in English: hanky(also hankie) nounPlural hankies ˈhaŋkiˈhæŋki informal A handkerchief. Example sentencesExamples - From shopping receipts to hankies, napkins to the tiniest scraps of paper became handy as they literally mobbed the Hyderabadi beauty for her signature.
- Gone are the handkerchief codes of the seventies, where a hankie in the left pocket indicated a guy was a top, and the right indicated a bottom.
- Senator William Evatts who was noted as a long speaker was making his speech and dragging it out as usual when he stopped for a moment to sneeze, the boy thinking it was over waved the hankie and Bartholdi pulled the cord to release the flag.
- More than once, I had to pull out my hanky and wipe my eyes after doubling over from laughter.
- Are you wiping your screen with a hankie, unsure you read that right?
- I've worked my way through heaps of tissues and oversized hankies.
- If you ever see a man having his hair combed by his mother or his face wiped with a hanky, despite the fact that he's 38, that's Cancer man.
- She had on long white gloves and a feather boa, as she sauntered onto the scene clutching her handkerchief she pretended to faint, and drop the hankie.
- You know the glass with the stupid hanky inside it?
- I had a hanky in my pocket and I started to mop the port up so it wouldn't stain his trousers.
- Has the hanky joined the gold Albert and the gentleman's sovereign-case, objects surviving only as props in The Forsyte Saga and The Importance of Being Earnest?
- A last minute purchase from a vendor at Shakthan Bus Stand, two days before he flew down to Abu Dhabi, the hanky had lost all shape and most of its colour, but it still had a sticker with a Thrissur address.
- ‘Roit,’ said Ladder Man, scraping a hanky over his face to wipe the sweat out of his eyes, ‘you know the lot at number 8?’
- The McCartney sisters would have gone up to Stormont or Hillsborough and Mo Mowlam would have lent them a hanky to dry their eyes with and gone back inside to discuss the way forward with Martin McGuinness.
- All you will be left with are hankies to wipe your tears.
- I was brought up to cover my mouth when I had a cough and use a hanky when sneezing.
- Rumour has it that he nearly choked, but he noticed that a dark ring of dirt developed on the other side of the hanky and went on to develop the first machine.
- Here inside, a pool of TV and still cameras watched the families with an unblinking but compassionate eye - catching President George W. Bush pass a hanky to the young son of commander Husband.
- What you do is take a pound coin, place it in the middle of a handkerchief and then twist around the rest of the hanky until it looks like a jellyfish, with the coin being its small, concealed head.
- There are always mums in the audience wiping their eyes with hankies.
Origin Late 19th century: abbreviation. Rhymes cranky, Frankie, hanky-panky, lanky, manky, swanky, Yankee Definition of hanky in US English: hanky(also hankie) nounˈhaNGkēˈhæŋki informal A handkerchief. Example sentencesExamples - You know the glass with the stupid hanky inside it?
- From shopping receipts to hankies, napkins to the tiniest scraps of paper became handy as they literally mobbed the Hyderabadi beauty for her signature.
- I had a hanky in my pocket and I started to mop the port up so it wouldn't stain his trousers.
- There are always mums in the audience wiping their eyes with hankies.
- Gone are the handkerchief codes of the seventies, where a hankie in the left pocket indicated a guy was a top, and the right indicated a bottom.
- Are you wiping your screen with a hankie, unsure you read that right?
- Here inside, a pool of TV and still cameras watched the families with an unblinking but compassionate eye - catching President George W. Bush pass a hanky to the young son of commander Husband.
- What you do is take a pound coin, place it in the middle of a handkerchief and then twist around the rest of the hanky until it looks like a jellyfish, with the coin being its small, concealed head.
- Rumour has it that he nearly choked, but he noticed that a dark ring of dirt developed on the other side of the hanky and went on to develop the first machine.
- Has the hanky joined the gold Albert and the gentleman's sovereign-case, objects surviving only as props in The Forsyte Saga and The Importance of Being Earnest?
- All you will be left with are hankies to wipe your tears.
- Senator William Evatts who was noted as a long speaker was making his speech and dragging it out as usual when he stopped for a moment to sneeze, the boy thinking it was over waved the hankie and Bartholdi pulled the cord to release the flag.
- She had on long white gloves and a feather boa, as she sauntered onto the scene clutching her handkerchief she pretended to faint, and drop the hankie.
- I've worked my way through heaps of tissues and oversized hankies.
- ‘Roit,’ said Ladder Man, scraping a hanky over his face to wipe the sweat out of his eyes, ‘you know the lot at number 8?’
- If you ever see a man having his hair combed by his mother or his face wiped with a hanky, despite the fact that he's 38, that's Cancer man.
- More than once, I had to pull out my hanky and wipe my eyes after doubling over from laughter.
- A last minute purchase from a vendor at Shakthan Bus Stand, two days before he flew down to Abu Dhabi, the hanky had lost all shape and most of its colour, but it still had a sticker with a Thrissur address.
- I was brought up to cover my mouth when I had a cough and use a hanky when sneezing.
- The McCartney sisters would have gone up to Stormont or Hillsborough and Mo Mowlam would have lent them a hanky to dry their eyes with and gone back inside to discuss the way forward with Martin McGuinness.
Origin Late 19th century: abbreviation. |