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What (who) is HANKERED - definition
Hankered
·Impf & ·p.p. of Hanker.
hanker
(hankers, hankering, hankered)
If you hanker after something, you want it very much.
I hankered after a floor-length brown suede coat.
VERB: V after/for n, also V to-inf
hankering
n. (colloq.)
1) a hankering for
2) a hankering to + inf. (a hankering to travel)
Examples of use of HANKERED
1. Mr Clarke said he still hankered after the job of Prime Minister.
2. They signal that, in its distinctive way, a Brown era will be a development of the Blair era and not the repudiation for which a minority has hankered.
3. And it appears that William Roache, who has played "clever Ken" since Coronation Street began in 1'60, also once hankered after an opportunity to spread his wings.
4. And Ankara, nostalgic for the former glory of the Ottoman Empire, has hankered for a key role in a country it ruled for centuries.
5. In continental Europe, it was even worse little Frenchmen with Napoleon complexes; Austrians who hankered after the Habsburgs; Poles with strong views about the Jews.