20 January 2019

hinky

or hin·key, hink·ty, hinc·ty
[hing-kee]

adjective, hin·ki·er, hin·ki·est. Slang.

acting in a nervous or very cautious way.
suspicious:
Whenever he agrees with me, you know something hinky is going on!
snobbish; haughty.

Origin of hinky

First recorded in 1920–25; origin unknown

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Examples from the Web for hinky

Historical Examples of hinky

My companion and I felt that while we were “getting” Hinky Dink, he was not failing to “get” us.
Abroad at Home
Julian Street

I only mean that I had always thought of Hinky Dink as a fictitious personage.
Abroad at Home
Julian Street

I experienced a somewhat similar emotion in Chicago on being introduced to Hinky Dink.
Abroad at Home
Julian Street

I’ll tell you what happens: some city editor sends a kid reporter to get a story about Hinky Dink.
Abroad at Home
Julian Street

“Hinky Dink” saw him, paid for a week’s lodging at the Mills Hotel, and gave him money for meals each day.
The Nation Behind Prison Bars
George L. Herr

Today’s quote

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.

– Edgar Allan Poe

On this day

20 January – Penguin Awareness Day.

20 January 1952 – birth of Stanley Harvey Esien, better known as Paul Stanley, singer and guitarist in glam rock band, Kiss.

20 January 1982 – It was the chomp heard around the world, when Ozzy Osbourne, The Prince of Darkness, bit the head off a bat while performing on stage in Des Moines, Iowa. A fan had thrown a bat on stage. Ozzy claims he thought it was rubber, but found out the hard way, that it was, in fact, a real bat. He was taken to hospital and given rabies shots. This follows on from an incident in 1981, when Ozzy bit the head off a dove after signing his first solo record deal … as you do … Word has it that Ozzy had planned to release a number of doves as a symbol of peace, but was drunk and felt one of the doves could do with a trim … which didn’t work out too well for the dove. There is no truth in the rumour that the Prince song, ‘When Doves Cry’ is about the incident.