Definitions
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- noun a square piece of cloth used for wiping the eyes or nose or as a costume accessory
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Examples
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You were watched all the time and if a girl danced too close to a man or a man danced too close to a girl or they saw any kind of hankey-pankey going on, don't think that they didn't come right in and make a scene about it!
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Anthropomorphized? wait, thats mr.hankey. zeigeist, baller!
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It was I who added counters to his stakes, just once or twice, and not nearly as often as they said - why, I was quite shocked when I read in the papers last week, the kind of evidence they were giving, even Mrs Wilson - dear me, if there had been that much hankey-pankey with the counters the whole world must have seen, the Prince and everyone!
Watershed 2010
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Ramona Simms - Gorgeously attired in head hankey and with an attractive unaffected insouciant wiggle, the girl from Ipanemah was oblivious to the admiring glance s she received from passers by …
Archive 2007-03-11 Newmania 2007
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Ramona Simms - Gorgeously attired in head hankey and with an attractive unaffected insouciant wiggle, the girl from Ipanemah was oblivious to the admiring glance s she received from passers by …
National Green Day Newmania 2007
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Just the thought of a mustachioed man in a hop hat turning a hankey into a dove is enough to make us want to break up his marriage and have the sexy magician all to ourselves, just like Cameron Diaz.
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Now Newton, Darwin, Dalton, Davy, Joule, and Adam Smith did not affect this “expert” hankey-pankey, becoming enough in a hairdresser or a fashionable physician, but indecent in a philosopher or a man of science.
A Modern Utopia Herbert George 2006
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It was I who added counters to his stakes, just once or twice, and not nearly as often as they said - why, I was quite shocked when I read in the papers last week, the kind of evidence they were giving, even Mrs Wilson - dear me, if there had been that much hankey-pankey with the counters the whole world must have seen, the Prince and everyone!
Flashman And The Tiger Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1999
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'By the Lord, I believe the Apostle's right, -- the whole place reeks to me of hankey-pankey, -- it did as soon as I put my nose inside.
The Beetle Richard Marsh
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I do not pretend to be proficient in the modus operandi of the hankey - pankey man, but I know that he has a method, all the same, -- one susceptible, too, of facile explanation.
The Beetle Richard Marsh
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