Hanker

Definition: Hanker

Hanker

Verb

1. Desire strongly or persistently.

Date "hanker" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)

Note: Hanker \Han"ker\, intransitive verb. [imperative past participle Hankered; present participle verb or noun Hankering.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definitions
Slang in 1811	HANKER. To hanker after any thing; to have a longing after or for it. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Hanker

Synonyms: long (v), yearn (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Desire	Be hungry; Adjective: have a good appetite, play a good knife and fork; hunger after, thirst after, crave after, lust after, itch after, hanker after, run mad after; raven for, die for; burn to.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Hanker

English words defined with "hanker": Hankered ♦ Wish. (references)

"Hanker" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Hanker" is used about 33 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	33	60,273

Expressions using "hanker": hanker after ♦ hanker after smth. smb. ♦ hanker for. Additional references.
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Language		Translations for "hanker"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		jam i etur (die, lust, thirst, yearn), digjem (burn, burn out, die, glow, grow warmer, pine, scorch), dëshirohem (languish, long). (various references)

Arabic		‏تاق (ache, aim, aspire, crave, desire, gasp, hone, hunger, pant, want, wish, yearn). (various references)

Bulgarian		копнея (ache, crave, hunger, languish, long, pant, pine, sigh, weary, yearn, yen), жадувам (ache, desire, hunger, pant, pine, thirst, weary, yearn, yen). (various references)

Czech		toužit (ache, aspire, desire, want, yearn), dychtit. (various references)

Farsi		مرددودودل بودن , ارزومندچیزی بودن , اشتیاق داشتن (Aspire, Crave, Hunger, Thirst, Yearn). (various references)

Finnish		havitella (aspire, be after, desire). (various references)

French		avoir envie de. (various references)

German		sich sehnen (ache, long, long for, pine, yearn). (various references)

Greek		υπερεπιθυμώ (crave, long), λαχταρώ (ache, crave, desire, long for, thrill, yearn). (various references)

Hebrew		ל�"שתוקק (crave, desire, hunger, long for, lust, strive, want, wish for, yearn). (various references)

Hungarian		vágyakozik (ache, long for, to aspire, to crave, to hanker, yearn), sóvárog (ache, aspire, aspire to, crave, hope for, long for, to crave, to hanker, to hunger, to pine, to yammer, to yearn, yammer, yearn). (various references)

Indonesian		rindu (homesick, longing, nostalgic). (various references)

Italian		desiderare ardentemente (ache, hunger, long), bramare (aspire, covet, crave, desire, hunger, long, long for, lust, yearn). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		付け回す (to follow, to hanker after, to hover around, to shadow), 付け回る (to follow, to hanker after, to hover around, to shadow). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		つけまわす (to follow, to hanker after, to hover around, to shadow), つけまわる (to follow, to hanker after, to hover around, to shadow). (various references)

Manx		mianey (desire, fancy, hankering, long, lust, wish), goaill foddeeaght ny yei. (various references)

Norwegian		ha god lyst på. (various references)

Pig Latin		ankerhay.(various references)

Portuguese		enrolar (coil, coiling, convolute, convolve, crisp, curl, furl, lap, lap up, manicure, roll, roll up, scroll, to coil, to curl up, to wind up, twirl, twist, wind up, wrap, wrap up), desejar ardentemente (ambition, pant), ansiar (cause alarm, desire, hunger, long, long for, pant, yearn). (various references)

Romanian		tânji dupã (hunger after, hunger for, pant for, pine after, yearn for), plânge (complain, cry, grieve, lament, laugh on the wrong side of one's mouth, mourn, pipe, wail, weep), dori cu înfocare (pant for). (various references)

Russian		страстное желание (concupiscence, craving, hankering), страстно желать (long). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		žudnja (avidity, craving, eagerness, hankering, hunger, longing, lust, thirst, yen), žudeti (ache, aspire, covet, crave, hunger, long for, lust, thirst, yearn). (various references)

Spanish		anhelar (ache for, aspire, be eager for, covet, crave for, desire, gasp, hanker after, hanker for, have a yen to, long, long for, pant, pine for, sicken for, wheeze, yearn for), añorar (yearn). (various references)

Swedish		åtrå (concupiscence, covet, crave, desire, lust, lust after, lust for, yearning). (various references)

Turkish		istemek (ask, ask for, be spoiling for, bespeak, call for, call on, call upon, choose, claim, court, demand, desire, enjoin, exact, fancy, hope, intend, invite, like, long, request, require, requisition, seek, solicit, sue for, want, will, wish), can atmak (ache for, ache to, aspire, be dying for, crave, die for, have an itch to, itch, itch to, jump at, lick one's chops, long, look forward to, raring to, set one's heart on), arzulamak (ache, aspire, desire, have a yen for, long for, lust after, lust for, want, will, wish, yearn), özlemek (ache, hunger, long, long for, pant, pine, pine for, sigh for, yearn), özlem duymak (be lonely for, long for). (various references)

Ukranian		прагнути (affect, aim, aspire, endeavor, endeavour, ensue, gasp for, gravitate, point, try for, wish for), прагнення (affectation, ambition, anxiety, appetency, appetition, aspiration, aspiring, craving, desire, gravitation, hunger, libido, need, nisus, objective). (various references)

Welsh		ysu (consume, eat, itch). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "hanker": hankered, hankerer, hankerers, hankering, hankers. (additional references)
	Words ending with "hanker": thanker. (additional references)
	Words containing "hanker": thankers. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Hanker" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bhancair, haker, hakker, hakkert, Hancher, haner, Hangkow, hanked, hankee, Hankei, hankel, hanken, hanki, Hankuk, Hanner, hanter, harker, hauker, Haukur, Hehner, Heneker, henkan, Hinke, honken, kanker, Khandker, Nahke, Shankara. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "hanker" (pronounced ha"ngker)
4	-a" ng k er	anchor, banker, canker, danker, rancor, ranker, tanker.
3	-ng k er	bunker, clunker, conquer, drinker, Dunker, freethinker, hunker, junker, linker, pinker, plunker, reconquer, sinker, supertanker, thinker, tinker, winker, yonker, younker.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: harken.
	Words within the letters "a-e-h-k-n-r"
	-2 letters: ankh, earn, haen, hake, hank, hare, hark, hear, hern, kane, karn, kern, khan, knar, nark, near, rake, rank, rhea.
	-3 letters: ane, are, ark, ear, era, ern, hae, hen, her, kae, kea, ken, nae, nah, rah, ran.
	-4 letters: ae, ah, an, ar, eh, en, er, ha, he, ka, na, ne, re.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-h-k-n-r"
	+1 letter: hankers, harkens, hearken, thanker.
	+2 letters: dakerhen, hankered, hankerer, harkened, harkener, hearkens, redshank, thankers.
	+3 letters: benchmark, dakerhens, foreshank, hankerers, hankering, harkeners, harkening, hearkened, kashering, preshrank, raincheck, redshanks, shrinkage.
	+4 letters: backhander, benchmarks, foreshanks, greenshank, handworker, hearkening, rainchecks, rakishness, shrinkable, shrinkages.
	+5 letters: backbencher, backhanders, blackhander, greenshanks, handworkers, heartbroken, kindhearted, kitchenware, leatherneck, nightwalker, thankfuller.
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