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Definition of hanky-panky in English: hanky-pankynoun haŋkɪˈpaŋkiˌhæŋkiˈpæŋki mass nounhumorous, informal Behaviour, in particular sexual or legally dubious behaviour, considered improper but not seriously so. 〈非正式，幽默〉不正当的性行为；财务上做手脚的行为；欺骗行为 suspicions of financial hanky-panky 财务上手脚不干净的嫌疑。 Example sentencesExamples - As long as there is no hanky-panky they can do whatever they like.
- How come the same people who call same-sex marriage immoral are so often up to their necks in heterosexual hanky-panky?
- Which only goes to show that there's nothing better than a bit of sexual hanky-panky to divert the public from more serious matters.
- Still, any hanky-panky would have been a lousy move.
- Before the writs and the fists fly let me point out that there's no hanky-panky, rumpy-pumpy or anything of the sort involved.
- And a police raid on a massage parlor specializing in hanky-panky sends shockwaves through a Texas town.
- No one is suggesting, nor should they, that this is proof there's any financial hanky-panky going on.
- Initially, there was a bit of communal, free-love hanky-panky among the Children of God, but by the time the three Jynxters-to-be came on the scene, that had long passed.
- Catching the spirit of the movie, we want to believe that you and the young cast indulged in all sorts of fantastic sexual hanky-panky.
- My first thought on the notion of civilian use is the potential for financial hanky-panky.
- This book expands the definition to include fraud, financial hanky-panky and the psychological or spiritual abuse of those who turn to the clergy for help.
- Equally, using the forces of the law to spend time and money chasing after some folk who went into Croker for a bit of hanky-panky doesn't contribute anything to credibility and trust in the law.
- I was very stern - no hanky-panky and no unnecessary smiling which could be misconstrued.
- You and Dustin can bring sleeping bags in there as long as there's no hanky-panky.
- He slapped the topless Mecca for celebrities and high rollers with a lawsuit in Manhattan Supreme Court, claiming hanky-panky - of the financial sort - was behind his gargantuan tab.
- After learning of the client's sad state of affairs, we launch into the meat of the show, where the cavalcade of aforementioned investigators track the suspect and run recon to see if there is indeed some illicit hanky-panky going on.
- A CBS movie revisits Enron, with all its chicanery, flimflam, excess, hanky-panky, and its descent into the dark, if darkly comic, side of capitalism.
- ‘There's a lot of hanky-panky going on among species that we believed were socially monogamous,’ says Emlen, whose work was funded by the National Science Foundation.
- His unworldliness - despite all he has seen and heard - is the perfect contrast to the high-minded hanky-panky of the inner circle.
- I mean, it's no more esoteric or unusual than what anyone else does, but people don't get their knickers in a twist about Mr and Mrs Jones' hanky-panky.
Synonyms goings-on, funny business, mischief, misbehaviour, misconduct, chicanery, dishonesty, deception, deceit, trickery, intrigue, skulduggery, subterfuge, machinations extramarital sex, infidelity, unfaithfulness, adultery, liaison, affair, fling informal monkey business, shenanigans, carryings-on, carry-on, fooling around, playing around British informal jiggery-pokery, monkey tricks North American informal monkeyshines formal fornication archaic knavery
OriginMid 19th century: perhaps an alteration of hokey-pokey. People have been talking in disapproving terms of hanky-panky since the 1830s. Then it tended to mean ‘trickery’ or ‘dishonest behaviour’, whereas since the 1930s it has mainly referred to sexual indiscretions. The word is possibly an alteration of hocus-pocus, which was said by conjurors as they performed their tricks, rather like ‘abracadabra!’. This appeared in the early 17th century based on a pseudo-Latin phrase hax pax max Deus adimax used by conjurors as a magic formula. Hoax (late 18th century) may be a shortening of hocus-pocus.
Rhymescranky, Frankie, hanky, lanky, manky, swanky, Yankee Definition of hanky-panky in US English: hanky-pankynounˌhæŋkiˈpæŋkiˌhaNGkēˈpaNGkē humorous, informal Behavior, in particular sexual or legally dubious behavior, considered improper but not seriously so. 〈非正式，幽默〉不正当的性行为；财务上做手脚的行为；欺骗行为 suspicions of financial hanky-panky 财务上手脚不干净的嫌疑。 there's no hanky-panky involved, no dating of customers Example sentencesExamples - Initially, there was a bit of communal, free-love hanky-panky among the Children of God, but by the time the three Jynxters-to-be came on the scene, that had long passed.
- ‘There's a lot of hanky-panky going on among species that we believed were socially monogamous,’ says Emlen, whose work was funded by the National Science Foundation.
- After learning of the client's sad state of affairs, we launch into the meat of the show, where the cavalcade of aforementioned investigators track the suspect and run recon to see if there is indeed some illicit hanky-panky going on.
- Catching the spirit of the movie, we want to believe that you and the young cast indulged in all sorts of fantastic sexual hanky-panky.
- How come the same people who call same-sex marriage immoral are so often up to their necks in heterosexual hanky-panky?
- A CBS movie revisits Enron, with all its chicanery, flimflam, excess, hanky-panky, and its descent into the dark, if darkly comic, side of capitalism.
- My first thought on the notion of civilian use is the potential for financial hanky-panky.
- I was very stern - no hanky-panky and no unnecessary smiling which could be misconstrued.
- This book expands the definition to include fraud, financial hanky-panky and the psychological or spiritual abuse of those who turn to the clergy for help.
- And a police raid on a massage parlor specializing in hanky-panky sends shockwaves through a Texas town.
- Equally, using the forces of the law to spend time and money chasing after some folk who went into Croker for a bit of hanky-panky doesn't contribute anything to credibility and trust in the law.
- He slapped the topless Mecca for celebrities and high rollers with a lawsuit in Manhattan Supreme Court, claiming hanky-panky - of the financial sort - was behind his gargantuan tab.
- Still, any hanky-panky would have been a lousy move.
- I mean, it's no more esoteric or unusual than what anyone else does, but people don't get their knickers in a twist about Mr and Mrs Jones' hanky-panky.
- Which only goes to show that there's nothing better than a bit of sexual hanky-panky to divert the public from more serious matters.
- As long as there is no hanky-panky they can do whatever they like.
- No one is suggesting, nor should they, that this is proof there's any financial hanky-panky going on.
- His unworldliness - despite all he has seen and heard - is the perfect contrast to the high-minded hanky-panky of the inner circle.
- You and Dustin can bring sleeping bags in there as long as there's no hanky-panky.
- Before the writs and the fists fly let me point out that there's no hanky-panky, rumpy-pumpy or anything of the sort involved.
Synonyms goings-on, funny business, mischief, misbehaviour, misconduct, chicanery, dishonesty, deception, deceit, trickery, intrigue, skulduggery, subterfuge, machinations
OriginMid 19th century: perhaps an alteration of hokey-pokey. |