Definitions for hanker

hanker han·ker

Spelling: [hang-ker]
IPA: /ˈhæŋ kər/

Hanker is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 92 anagrams from letters in hanker (aehknr).

Definitions for hanker

verb (used without object)

  1. to have a restless or incessant longing (often followed by after, for, or an infinitive).

Origin of hanker

1595-1605; early Dutch dialect hankeren (cognate with Dutch hunkeren), frequentative of hangen to hang

Examples for hanker

If you hanker to go to Boston, go you shall, and no thanks to me.

Trivial might some say who hanker after giantesque composition.

I can make a living for myself and my small family, and we do not hanker after riches.

There's days when I feel uneasy every minute and hanker for a deck underneath me.

He'd better bend his own back at that work, and then it's not mint he'll hanker after, no fear!

I hanker for a chance to cross the street, but they won't let me.

I was too busy to hanker for a stump speech, so I cut across his bows.

That is not the kind of greatness of country that I hanker for very seriously.

It was characteristic of Jamie that still he did not hanker for more money.

Here, by Godfreys, they don't give us no time to hanker for nothin'.

Word Value for hanker
Scrable

13

Words with friends

13

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