hanker

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.

verb

  1. To crave, want or desire.
    If you hanker for chocolate, you'll like this fudge recipe.
    […] the newly rich hanker after old aristocratic glitz. 2012-10-13, “Very good, sir”, in The Economist, →ISSN

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