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Definition of hanker in English: hankerverb ˈhaŋkəˈhæŋkər [no object]hanker after/for/to do somethingFeel a strong desire for or to do something. 渴望，热切希望 he hankered after a lost golden age 他留恋那已经失去的黄金时代。 她非常想回去。 Example sentencesExamples - I have a hankering to become a Canadian, actually.
- Thirty-four, and fit again, he has a hankering to get off the rollercoaster which has been his career since he was unveiled as Rangers' big-name Scottish signing two years ago.
- Lately I've had a powerful hankering to get on the radio again.
- I had a hankering to resume the game of guessing songs again, although straining to hear other people's personal stereos in the gym is not only sadder than doing it on the bus but it makes you look stupid.
- That was when I realised that the camera had stayed in its case all the way, and that I'd missed an opportunity to grab townscape shots from which to work up pictures of the kind I am hankering to paint.
- I'm not a lawyer (never even had a teensy tiny hankering to go to law school), but a PhD student in political science.
- I still cannot figure out why the machine dials the Internet every 15 minutes; I've checked every program that hankers to be online, and they all insist they're guiltless.
- Our ability to feed our families, have universal health care or be a vibrant nation is becoming dependent on visiting tourists with disposable incomes who have a hankering to get high.
- Besides, I had to tell Graham what had kept me and, in my experience, a story that's told too often gets to be tedious to the teller and I have a hankering to write it out properly one day.
- Right now it's just after 9am on the East Coast, so many of you are probably just settling in to your chairs with some hot coffee and a hankering to do something other than work.
- Two separate sets of friends had gone there and instructed me not to follow in their footsteps, but every time I passed the Spanish deli at Canonmills, I had a hankering to try the restaurant.
- So, if you have a hankering to be creative and would like to makeover your home this spring, or you have a sewing machine stashed away that you never quite got round to using then this could be the opportunity you have been waiting for.
- English by birth, I'd been in Australia for about 10 years and had a hankering to return to my roots, if not permanently, then at least for a considerable length of time.
- Are you hankering to increase your knowledge of lesser psychedelic bands or the maybe just dig up some information on Holland, Dozier and Hollands' ill fated seventies soul label?
- I still hanker to return home with my family one day but my view of NZ when I was growing up in the 1970's is dead and buried.
- To be honest, I'm hankering to work on some of my ‘real’ writing for a bit, maybe putting out two new books using that cool new Cafe Press publishing service.
- I spent almost the whole day sleeping, which was decidedly lovely, and I've been hankering to play Civilization: Call to Power for a couple of days, so despite a long To Do List, that's what I'm going to do.
- Prerequisites are a willingness to experiment, a desire to play, and a hankering to shake up preconceived notions about your art and photography.
- Paul O'Neill was not a person looking, really hankering to get back into national politics and national policy anytime soon.
- ‘I know he had a hankering to be hands-on again,’ says McLeish.
Synonyms yearn, long, have a longing, have a hankering, crave, desire, wish, want, hunger, thirst, lust, ache, be aching, itch, be itching, burn, be burning, pant, want badly, be eager, be desperate, be hungry, be greedy, be thirsty, be consumed with a/the desire, be eating one's heart out fancy, pine for, have one's heart set on informal be dying, have a yen archaic be desirous, be athirst rare suspire longing, yearning, craving, desire, wish, need, hunger, thirst, urge, ache, itch, lust, burning, pining, appetite, passion, fancy informal yen rare appetency, appetence
Derivativesnoun I want no philosopher queen or king, no prophet exuding revealed truth, no mesmerising Pied Piper, no hawker of appealing mirages, no self-absorbed hankerer for power. Example sentencesExamples - The main drag for the fashion hankerer is Strand Arcade in the heart of town.
- Transcribing and translating all this for English-language HK hankerers is Saskatoon, Saskatchewan's own Sanney Leung.
- He is also an unrepentantly laid-back hankerer for the surf-and-grass California scene.
- This really got a lot of these cocktail hankerers together in a real way.
OriginEarly 17th century: probably related to hang; compare with Dutch hunkeren. Rhymesanchor, banker, Bianca, canker, Casablanca, Costa Blanca, flanker, franker, lingua franca, Lubyanka, rancour (US rancor), ranker, Salamanca, spanker, Sri Lanka, tanka, tanker, up-anchor Definition of hanker in US English: hankerverbˈhaNGkərˈhæŋkər [no object]hanker after/for/to do somethingFeel a strong desire for or to do something. 渴望，热切希望 她非常想回去。 Example sentencesExamples - English by birth, I'd been in Australia for about 10 years and had a hankering to return to my roots, if not permanently, then at least for a considerable length of time.
- ‘I know he had a hankering to be hands-on again,’ says McLeish.
- To be honest, I'm hankering to work on some of my ‘real’ writing for a bit, maybe putting out two new books using that cool new Cafe Press publishing service.
- Besides, I had to tell Graham what had kept me and, in my experience, a story that's told too often gets to be tedious to the teller and I have a hankering to write it out properly one day.
- Are you hankering to increase your knowledge of lesser psychedelic bands or the maybe just dig up some information on Holland, Dozier and Hollands' ill fated seventies soul label?
- Lately I've had a powerful hankering to get on the radio again.
- Thirty-four, and fit again, he has a hankering to get off the rollercoaster which has been his career since he was unveiled as Rangers' big-name Scottish signing two years ago.
- I spent almost the whole day sleeping, which was decidedly lovely, and I've been hankering to play Civilization: Call to Power for a couple of days, so despite a long To Do List, that's what I'm going to do.
- Prerequisites are a willingness to experiment, a desire to play, and a hankering to shake up preconceived notions about your art and photography.
- Right now it's just after 9am on the East Coast, so many of you are probably just settling in to your chairs with some hot coffee and a hankering to do something other than work.
- I had a hankering to resume the game of guessing songs again, although straining to hear other people's personal stereos in the gym is not only sadder than doing it on the bus but it makes you look stupid.
- I still cannot figure out why the machine dials the Internet every 15 minutes; I've checked every program that hankers to be online, and they all insist they're guiltless.
- I'm not a lawyer (never even had a teensy tiny hankering to go to law school), but a PhD student in political science.
- Paul O'Neill was not a person looking, really hankering to get back into national politics and national policy anytime soon.
- Our ability to feed our families, have universal health care or be a vibrant nation is becoming dependent on visiting tourists with disposable incomes who have a hankering to get high.
- I have a hankering to become a Canadian, actually.
- Two separate sets of friends had gone there and instructed me not to follow in their footsteps, but every time I passed the Spanish deli at Canonmills, I had a hankering to try the restaurant.
- That was when I realised that the camera had stayed in its case all the way, and that I'd missed an opportunity to grab townscape shots from which to work up pictures of the kind I am hankering to paint.
- I still hanker to return home with my family one day but my view of NZ when I was growing up in the 1970's is dead and buried.
- So, if you have a hankering to be creative and would like to makeover your home this spring, or you have a sewing machine stashed away that you never quite got round to using then this could be the opportunity you have been waiting for.
Synonyms yearn, long, have a longing, have a hankering, crave, desire, wish, want, hunger, thirst, lust, ache, be aching, itch, be itching, burn, be burning, pant, want badly, be eager, be desperate, be hungry, be greedy, be thirsty, be consumed with a desire, be consumed with the desire, be eating one's heart out longing, yearning, craving, desire, wish, need, hunger, thirst, urge, ache, itch, lust, burning, pining, appetite, passion, fancy
OriginEarly 17th century: probably related to hang; compare with Dutch hunkeren. |