Definitions for hankerings

hankerings han·ker·ing

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

Hankerings is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 671 anagrams from letters in hankerings (aeghiknnrs).

Definitions for hankerings

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 hankerings

First recorded in 1655-65; hanker + -ing1

Examples for hankerings

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Word Value for hankerings
Scrable

17

Words with friends

19

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