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hanker

verb
/ˈhæŋkə(ɹ)/

Etymology

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.

  1. inherited from *hankōną✻

Definitions

  1. To crave, want or desire.

    • If you hanker for chocolate, you'll like this fudge recipe.
    • “O ’tis true enough, faith. I cannot understand Farmer Boldwood being such a fool at his time of life as to ho and hanker after thik^([sic]) woman in the way ’a do, and she not care a bit about en.”
    • “Baked, they were tough; and even boiled, they warn’t things for a hungry man to hanker after.”

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at hanker. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01hanker02crave03demand04salable05saleable06find07desire08want

A definitional loop anchored at hanker. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at hanker

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA