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hanky; hankie
noun
a handkerchief; a tissue (often qualified as a paper hankie) UK, 1895
In the US a childish shortening virtually conventional in the UK.- I put your hankies in here. [She indicates a drawer of the chest of drawers] They’re all ironed. — Alexander Baron, A Bit of Happiness [Six Granada Plays], p. 211, 1959
- I once shoved that stuff up me conk [nose] and me hankie turned brown. — Barry Humphries, Bazza Pulls It Off!, 1971
- Not the way Richie, bleeding all over himself, kept moaning, saying to him, “Bird, you have a hanky? Man, I’m cut bad.” — Elmore Leonard, Killshot, p. 69, 1989
- Not even if you hear a thud from inside my home and a week later there’s a smell from in there that can only come from a decaying body and you have to hold a hanky against your face because the stench is so thick[.] — As Good As It Gets, 1997
- [W]e ring 999 and give it the old hanky over the mouth routine. — Danny King, The Burglar Diaries, p. 72, 2001
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