Word.ws English Dictionary

hanky-twists

hanky-twists is the third-person singular simple present indicative of hanky-twist.

Meaning of hanky-twist

Verb

hanky-twist (third-person singular simple present hanky-twists, present participle hanky-twisting, simple past and past participle hanky-twisted)

  1. To fret; to worry ineffectually.
    • There must in other fields be analogous forms of the brow-knitting and hanky-twisting which have accompanied the more narcissistic aspects of the 'literary turn' in anthropology (of which Writing Culture is least typical) and cognate fields.1993, Stephen L. Nugent, Amazonian Caboclo Society: An Essay on Invisibility and Peasant Economy

Questions about hanky-twists

What is hanky-twists the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Hanky-twists is the third-person singular simple present indicative of hanky-twist.

Words near hanky-twists in the dictionary

  1. hanky-panks
  2. hanky-panky
  3. hanky-twist
  4. hanky-twisted
  5. hanky-twisting
  6. hanky-twists
  7. Hanley
  8. Hanley Castle
  9. Hanley Hills
  10. Hanleys
  11. Hanlin

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: hanky-twists (page history and authors); hanky-twist (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “hanky-twists.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/hanky-twists. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.