hankey-pankey

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English

Noun

hankey-pankey (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of hanky-panky
    • 1925 July – 1926 May, A Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
      "What have you done? Your infernal hankey-pankey has frightened her."
    • 1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:
      Can it be possible that that humorous professor of hankey-pankey — may all the maledictions of the accursed alight upon his head! — can have sent Marjorie Lindon, the daintiest damsel in the land! — into the streets of London rigged out in Holt’s old togs!