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Qué (quién) es Hanker - definición
Hanker
·vi To linger in expectation or with desire.
II. Hanker ·vi To long (for) with a keen appetite and uneasiness; to have a vehement desire;
- usually with for or after; as, to hanker after fruit; to hanker after the diversions of the town.
hanker
¦ verb (hanker after/for/to do something) feel a desire for or to do something.
Derivatives
hankerer noun
Origin
C17: prob. related to hang.
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
Ejemplos de uso de Hanker
1. The Scots, we are told, no longer hanker after independence.
2. A known loyalist, Kamat said his action was aimed at showing that Congressmen like Gandhi do not hanker after power.
3. Mr McCreevy said yesterday: "Some . . . hanker after protectionist barriers not only on the Union‘s external borders but internally as well.
4. Nothing he said last night is likely to convince them that he will offer the smack of firm government for which they hanker.
5. To be a messenger of God is too high a position for any one to hanker after, unless God chooses that person and gives him the necessary preparations.