Definitions for hankers

hankers han·ker

Spelling: [hang-ker]
IPA: /ˈhæŋ kər/

Hankers is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 208 anagrams from letters in hankers (aehknrs).

Definitions for hankers

verb (used without object)

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

Origin of hankers

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

Examples for hankers

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Trivial might some say who hanker after giantesque composition.

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

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

Word Value for hankers
Scrable

13

Words with friends

13

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