"Stinky pinky"

[Beverly Flanigan]

So is "hanky panky" related to this "game"?  I'm thinking of Wilson's BE
pronunciations.

At 02:52 PM 9/29/2004, you wrote:
>         When I learned this game (when I was a freshman in college, from
> another freshman), we called it "hinky pinky."  The choices were hink
> pink for one-syllable rhymes, hinky pinky for two-syllable rhymes, and
> hinkety pinkety for three-syllable rhymes; I don't recall ever having any
> four-syllable rhymes.  The only example I remember is "Hink pink:  an
> oblong spheroid."  The answer, of course, is "a tall ball."
>
>John Baker
>
>
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>Subject: Re: "Stinky pinky"
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>
>i'm sure that this was not the sense intended on the Jerry Springer
>show, but there is a non-sexual sense of the term: the name of kind of
>word play, in which the main player defines something that is named by
>a two-word rhyming expression, and the other participants try to guess
>it.  if the rhyming words have one syllable each, it's a Stink Pink; if
>two, a Stinky Pinky; if three, a Stinkety Pinkety; if four, a
>Gestinkety Gepinkety.