hanky
/ˈhaŋki
/(also hankie)
noun (plural hankies) informal
A handkerchief.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....
- I was brought up to cover my mouth when I had a cough and use a hanky when sneezing.
- There are always mums in the audience wiping their eyes with hankies.
Origin
Late 19th century: abbreviation.
Rhymes
- you can't make bricks without straw
- you can't (or can) talk (you shouldn't or should talk)
- you can't put an old head on young shoulders
- you can't teach an old dog new tricks
- you can't win them all (or win some, lose some)
- you could have fooled me!
- you could have knocked me (or her, him, etc.) down with a feather
- you couldn't make it up
- you'd
- you don't say (or you don't say so)!
- Youghiogheny River
- you have no idea
- you haven't lived!
- youing
- you know
- you know something (or what)?
- you-know-who (or you-know-what)
- you'll
- you may (or might) as well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamb
- you must be (or have to be) joking
- you must be (or have to be) kidding
- you name it
- you never know
- young
- young adult