hinky
Significado (Inglês)
- (colloquial) Acting suspiciously; strange, unusual; acting in a manner as if having something to hide, or seemingly crooked.
- (colloquial) Suspicious (of something).
- (colloquial) Dishonest; sketchy; shady
- (colloquial, derogatory) Weird; nonstandard.
- (colloquial) Unreliable; wonky
- (colloquial) Snobbish; haughty
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Etimologia (Inglês)
Possibly from obsolete Scots hink, from Old Norse hinka (“to limp or hobble”), probably not from Old English inca (“doubt; suspicion”). Possibly from hank (“a loop or coil or anything that curbs or restrains”). Possibly from African-American usage: hincty or hinkty.
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