thanky

English

Interjection

thanky

1. Eye dialect spelling of thank you, representing African-American Vernacular English.
   • 1937, Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Harper Perennial (2000), page 143:

     “Thanky Ma’am. Ah hates dat woman lak poison. Keep her from round dis house. Her look lak uh white woman!

Anagrams

• Khanty, hankty