Crossword clues for hankie
hankie
- It's useful if one breaks down
- Tearjerker need
- Tear-dabbing cloth
- Sneezer's accessory
- Pocket square, e.g
- One may be proffered at a wedding
- Monogrammed square
- It's useful when you break down
- It may be given with a blessing
- Hemmed square
- Cryers convenience
- Cloth used for personal wiping
- Cloth that may get a lot of tears
- Monogram bearer, perhaps
- Tearjerker watcher's item
- Cloth with tears in it?
- A square piece of cloth used for wiping the eyes or nose or as a costume accessory
- Some yarn that is making small piece of cloth
- Handful of hair perhaps that is something for wiping nose
- Sniffler's need
- Purse item
- Tear dryer
- Tearjerker take-along
- Tear dabber
- Sneezer's cloth
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
hankie \hankie\ n. Same as handkerchief.
Syn: handkerchief, hanky, hankey.
Wiktionary
alt. A handkerchief n. A handkerchief
WordNet
n. a square piece of cloth used for wiping the eyes or nose or as a costume accessory [syn: handkerchief, hanky, hankey]
Usage examples of "hankie".
Chocolates and scent and beautifully embroidered hankies, and in a long, beribboned box a fur scarf to match her cap.
She fumbled in the pocket of her cutoffs, pulling out a ratty hankie, which she pressed against her eyes.
In fact, the geometry of the bleachers, the lectern, and the main media area was such that it was impossible to get a shot of Cozzano without taking in several hundred supporters in the bleachers behind him, all waving hankies and signs, just like fans seated behind the goalposts at a football game.
At any rate, Becky seemed to understand how necessary a fresh supply of presentable hankies was to Harvey without his having to go into details about the carrot muffins and the burglars and the Niagara fall of gratified tears.
The wraith opens and examines the used hankie just like an alive person can never help but do and says No horror on earth or elsewhere could equal watching your own offspring open his mouth and have nothing come out.
The old man probes a nostril and then examines the hankie with interest, just like the dream-wraith did.
Stephanie's juggling lace hankies and firing her cap gun at the ceiling.
Four ribbed, snug-fit T-shirts with bias-cut sleeves, a floral cotton blouse with moth wounds pocking the breast pocket, three shiny, polyester halter tops not much bigger than the hankie Schwinn had offered to Ingalls—.
They dropped their huge purple flowers every so often, one at a time, like ladies dropping their hankies to get your attention.
It had to be going on eight, she told herself as she made sure she had a clean hankie in her purse, picked up her lesson plan book, and went out to her car.
I stuffed the hankie in, then pulled the tie over his mouth to keep the gag in place and knotted it behind his head.