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hanky-panky slang.|ˈhæŋkɪˈpæŋkɪ|
[An arbitrary formation, prob. related to hocus pocus, hoky-poky.]
Jugglery, legerdemain; trickery, double dealing, underhand dealing.
1841Punch I. 88 (Farmer) Only a little hanky-panky. 1847Alb. Smith Chr. Tadpole xlvii. (1879) 409 Necromancy, my dear Sir—the hanky-panky of the ancients. 1864E. Yates Broken to Harness xxxviii, If there was any hanky-panky, any mystery I mean. 1881Athenæum 27 Aug. 265/1 Madame Blavatsky's hanky-panky with teacups and cigarettes. 1887Black Sabina Zembra 461 He won't play hanky-panky with me.
attrib.1865B. Brierley Irkdale I. 292 Any sort o' hanky-panky work. 1882Mrs. Raven's Tempt. III. 41 Some hanky-panky trick of hers.
Add:2. Sexual activity or dalliance, esp. of a surreptitious nature.
1939G. B. Shaw Geneva I. 5 She:..No hanky panky. I am respectable; and I mean to keep respectable. He: I pledge you my word that my intentions are completely honorable. 1945L. F. McHugh Chicago Murders vii. 200 Didn't the key make it clear the good doctor was up to his neck in some extra-marital hanky-panky? 1974B. Bainbridge Bottle Factory Outing vi. 102 It would be funny if it was Mr Paganotti keeping an eye on them, watching to see if there was any hanky-panky going on in the forest. 1986New Yorker 13 Oct. 155/1 They were still ‘courting’, occupying separate quarters in Dr. Rounds' boarding house, on West Seventieth Street, where, according to Lunt, no ‘hanky-panky’ was permitted. |