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hankerchief

hankerchief is the eye dialect spelling of handkerchief.

Meaning of handkerchief

Noun

handkerchief (plural handkerchiefs or handkerchieves)

  1. A piece of cloth, usually square and often fine and elegant, carried for wiping the face, eyes, nose or hands.
    • He sneezed into his handkerchief during the meeting.
  2. A piece of cloth shaped like a handkerchief to be worn about the neck; a neckerchief or neckcloth.

Forms of hankerchief

pluralhankerchiefs

Questions about hankerchief

What is hankerchief the eye dialect spelling of?
Hankerchief is the eye dialect spelling of handkerchief.

Words near hankerchief in the dictionary

  1. Hankel matrices
  2. Hankel matrix
  3. Hankel matrixes
  4. Hankels
  5. hanker
  6. hankerchief
  7. hankerchiefs
  8. hankered
  9. hankerer
  10. hankerers
  11. hankering

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hankerchief (page history and authors); handkerchief (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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