variants or hanky
as in handkerchief
a small, often square piece of material that is used for personal hygiene purposes held a hankie up to his nose and blew vigorously

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Recent Examples of hankie But first, grab a hankie. refinery29.com, 21 Nov. 2021 Titanic remains a four-hankie crowd-pleaser par excellence, elevating a paper-thin love story to the scale of myth by placing it against the backdrop of incalculable human tragedy. A.a. Dowd, Chron, 9 Feb. 2023 Pulling a hankie out To wipe your brow surreptitiously. Hannah Aizenman, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2023 From the corner of his eye, Williams could see the umpire reaching for his yellow hankie before Dak could even round the corner on his scramble. Dallas News, 3 Jan. 2022 See all Example Sentences for hankie 

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“Hankie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hankie. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.

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