Definitions for hankering

hankering han·ker·ing

Spelling: [hang-ker-ing]
IPA: /ˈhæŋ kər ɪŋ/

Hankering is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 299 anagrams from letters in hankering (aeghiknnr).

Definitions for hankering

noun

  1. a longing; craving.

verb (used without object)

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

Origin of hankering

First recorded in 1655-65; hanker + -ing1

Examples for hankering

Some would no doubt keep dancing as they waited for the L train, hankering for the next episode of Morning Gloryville.

Indeed, this is not the kind of shop that would appeal to the 50-something woman with a hankering for flash and sizzle.

I liked it much better than that of my father, but still had a hankering for the sea.

There's the widow Babbage, down to Dock: she always had a hankering for you.

He had yielded to their abjurations; but his hankering for acres had remained.

For all that, a hankering after Beaurepaire was observable in her.

But Israelis and Palestinians don't vote in U.S. elections, whether they're hankering for peace or not.

Also that hankering after an overt or practical effect seems to me an apostasy.

But there was one yet—the biggest, the most blank, so to speak—that I had a hankering after.

Think I'm hankering about being smashed flatter'n a pancake, do you?

Word Value for hankering
Scrable

17

Words with friends

19

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