hinky-dinky adj.
1. excellent.
![]() | in Ozark Folksongs and Folklore (1992) I 513: The French they are a funny race, / They fight with their feet / And fuck with their face – / Hinky-dinky parlay-voo?! | |
![]() | DN IV:i 24: hinky-dinky. Excellent, first rate. [...] ‘Your work is hinky-dinky’. | ‘Terms of Approbation And Eulogy’ in|
![]() | Amer. Songbag 440: [title] Hinky Dinky, Parlee-Voo. |
2. little, short in stature.
![]() | ‘The Honorable Hinky Dink Of Chicago’ at www.oldandsold.com 🌐 The Hinky Dink of the newspapers is, as a matter of fact, to a large extent fictitious. [...] The real Hinky Dink —otherwise Alderman Michael Kenna—is a very different person, for whatever may be said against him —and much is—he is a very real human being. | |
![]() | Chicago: City On the Make 26: By the time Hinky Dink Kenna came along. |