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• Hinky

  [hing-kee] /ˈhɪŋ ki/ adjective, hinkier, hinkiest. Slang. 1. acting in a nervous or very cautious way. 2. suspicious: Whenever he agrees with me, you know something hinky is going on! 3. snobbish; haughty. adjective nervous or suspicious; acting suspiciously Examples The teenagers were acting hinky. Word Origin alteration of hincty Usage Note hinkier, hinkiest adjective […]

• Hinnom

  a deep, narrow ravine separating Mount Zion from the so-called “Hill of Evil Counsel.” It took its name from “some ancient hero, the son of Hinnom.” It is first mentioned in Josh. 15:8. It had been the place where the idolatrous Jews burned their children alive to Moloch and Baal. A particular part of the […]

• Hinny

  [hin-ee] /ˈhɪn i/ noun, plural hinnies. 1. the offspring of a male horse and a female donkey. Compare 1 (defs 1, 2). /ˈhɪnɪ/ noun (pl) -nies 1. the sterile hybrid offspring of a male horse and a female donkey or ass Compare mule1 (sense 1) /ˈhɪnɪ/ verb -nies, -nying, -nied 1. a less common word […]

• Hinsdale

  [hinz-deyl] /ˈhɪnzˌdeɪl/ noun 1. a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.

• Hinshelwood

  [hin-shuh l-woo d] /ˈhɪn ʃəlˌwʊd/ noun 1. Sir Cyril Norman, 1897–1967, English chemist: Nobel Prize 1956. /ˈhɪnʃəlˌwʊd/ noun 1. Sir Cyril Norman. 1897–1967, English chemist, who shared the Nobel prize for chemistry (1956) for the study of reaction kinetics