hunker

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈhʌŋkə/    美 /ˈhʌŋkɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A political conservative. dated
动词 v.
  1. To crouch or squat close to the ground or lie down. intransitive
    — Get out of the mobile home and hunker in a ditch
  2. To apply oneself to a task. intransitive

词形变化

hunkers present,singular,third-person hunkering participle,present hunkered participle,past hunkered past hunkers plural

词汇关系

衍生词
hunker down hunkers hunkerer

词源

词源 1
Originally Scottish. Origin uncertain, but probably of Germanic origin, perhaps *hunk- a nasalised variant of *huk- (compare Scots hoonk, hounk, variants of huk, hok (“to squat, crouch”); Scots hocker (“to crouch down, hunker”)), all of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse huka (“to crouch”), from Proto-Germanic *hūkan- (“to squat”), from *hūkkan-, back-formed from the iterative *huk(k)ōn-, from Proto-Indo-European *kuk-néh₂, from *kewk- (“to curve, bend”) (also the source of high).
Probable cognates include Old Norse húka, Dutch huiken, and German hocken.
词源 2
Unknown
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