hanker

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Lord Thormanby and the Archdeacon were jawing away like anything while we were searching about for the hanker, and took no notice of us, although the Archdeacon is frightfully polite now as a rule, quite different from what he used to be.

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  1. intransitive verb To have a strong, often restless desire.

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  1. Perhaps from Dutch dialectal hankeren; see konk- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = Dutch hunkeren (for *honkeren, *hankeren), hanker, long; cf. Old Dutch hengelen, hanker; a freq. verb from hank, variant of hang, literally ‘keep hanging on or about.’ Cf. Icelandic hanga, hang, hang on to, cleave to, Gothic (Moesogothic) hahan (weak verb), be attentive, ‘hanker’ (to hear, i. e., ‘hang on one's words’): see hang.
 

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