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Definition: Hunkered |
HunkeredAdjective1. Squatting close to the ground; "poorly clothed men huddled low against the wind"; "he stayed in the ditch hunkered down". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: HunkeredSynonyms: crouched (adj), crouching (adj), huddled (adj), hunkered down (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Hunkered |
| English words defined with "hunkered": crouched, crouching ♦ huddled, hunkered down. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | As for Andy - he spent that break hunkered in the shade, a strange little smile on his face, watching us drink his beer. (The Shawshank Redemption; writing credit: Frank Darabont) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| "Hunkered" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 91.67% of the time. "Hunkered" is used about 12 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 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 91.67% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 8.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 12 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "hunkered": hunkered down. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
hunkered | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Misspellings | |
"Hunkered" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: honered, Honeret, humkered, Hundered, hunkerd. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "hunkered" (pronounced hu"ngkerd) |
| 5 | -u" ng k er d | drunkard. |
| 4 | -ng k er d | anchored, conquered, reconquered, tankard, tinkered. |
| 3 | -k er d | bickered, brokered, checkered, dickered, euchred, flickered, lacquered, massacred, placard, snickered, snookered, suckered. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-h-k-n-r-u" | |
-2 letters: dunker, endure, enured, hunker, kerned. | |
-3 letters: drunk, ender, endue, enure, heder, kerne, kneed, nuder, nuked, undee, under. | |
-4 letters: deer, deke, dene, dere, dree, drek, duke, dune, dunk, dure, durn, eked, erne, heed, herd, here, hern, hued, hunk, keen, kern, knee, knur, kune, need, nerd, neuk, nude, nuke, nurd, rede, reed, reek, rend, rude. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-h-k-n-r-u" | |
+5 letters: thunderstrike, thunderstroke. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 75 6E 6B 65 72 65 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... ..- -. -.- . .-. . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01110101 01101110 01101011 01100101 01110010 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H u n k e r e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0075 006E 006B 0065 0072 0065 0064 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4287807771847170 |
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