Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- intransitive v. To have a strong, often restless desire.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- v. To crave, want or desire.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- intransitive v. To long (for) with a keen appetite and uneasiness; to have a vehement desire; -- usually with for or after
- intransitive v. To linger in expectation or with desire.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To long or yearn keenly and with uneasiness; have an uneasy craving: usually followed by after or for.
- To linger with expectation; hang about.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- v. desire strongly or persistently
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
Examples
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Gentle reader, if you have never been in battle or captured by robbers, you needn't "hanker" for the experience, but take it as you would your clothing, "second hand."
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And look o'er the field -- yes! and "hanker" for more.
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The solitude appealed to her sense of freedom; she did not "hanker" after a society she had never known.
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So does he now hanker for the life he left behind?
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Much as neurosurgeons might hanker after white coats with an exceedingly long train (borne through corridors and into the operating theater by respectful junior registrars), most people would regard such a thing as perverse.
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I can rustle up an eight-course Indian meal after a week of cooking, my bhangra dance steps are starting to resemble the real thing, and I hanker after Shahrukh Khan rather than George Clooney.
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Oh, I was never afraid of them, believe muh, but I didn't hanker after 'em.
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Yes, strange sort of a chap. Wouldn't hanker to be bunk-mates with him.
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Mr. Naimi's statements come as other OPEC members, including Venezuela, Algeria and Libya, hanker after a crude price of $100 a barrel.
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And the queens ... well they're queens; they just hanker for a little attention now and again.
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