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four-hankie

four-hankie adjective: tearjerking.

Adjective

four-hankie (comparative more four-hankie, superlative most four-hankie)

  1. tearjerking
    • [Straight audiences] can't imagine relating to them as people; the reality of gay characters is unreal to them. They will dismiss [the film] as excessive and melodramatic (misunderstanding that it's supposed to be) but then have no trouble relating to the high-toned four hanky antics of Kramer vs....1980 February 9, Michael Bronski, “The Consequence (review)”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 28, page 15

Forms of four-hankie

comparativemore four-hankie
superlativemost four-hankie

Questions about four-hankie

What does four-hankie mean?
Four-hankie means tearjerking.
What part of speech is four-hankie?
Four-hankie is an adjective.

Words near four-hankie in the dictionary

  1. Four-H Clubs
  2. four-half
  3. four-handed
  4. four-handedly
  5. four-handedness
  6. four-hankie
  7. four-hundredth
  8. four-in-hand
  9. four-in-hands
  10. four-leaf
  11. four-leaf clover

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