"Stinky pinky"

[Jeff Prucher]

Apparently, it is.  The Oxford Dictionary of Word Games gives "hanky panky" as
another name for "stinky pinky".  Draw whatever conclusions you like.

Jeff Prucher


--- Beverly Flanigan <flanigan at OHIOU.EDU> wrote:

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> So is "hanky panky" related to this "game"?  I'm thinking of Wilson's BE
> pronunciations.
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> 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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> >From: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU]On Behalf
> >Of Arnold M. Zwicky
> >Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 2:38 PM
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> >Subject: Re: "Stinky pinky"
> >
> >
> >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.
>




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