hanker

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To crave, want or desire.
    — If you hanker for chocolate, you'll like this fudge recipe.

词形变化

hankers present,singular,third-person hankering participle,present hankered participle,past hankered past

词源

With a secondary frequentative suffix -er, ultimately pointing to Proto-Germanic *hankōną, an iterative to *hanhaną (“to hang”). Related to Dutch hunkeren (“to crave”), which continues the zero-grade iterative.
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