Crossword-Solution: HUNKER
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Hunker | n. | Originally, a nickname for a member of the conservative section of the Democratic party in New York; hence, one opposed to progress in general; a fogy. |
We have 10 clues for the answer “HUNKER”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Hide out, with "down" | 1 answer |
| Ride out a storm, with "down" | 1 answer |
| Take shelter, with "down" | 1 answer |
| __ down (crouch) | 1 answer |
| Squat down | 2 answers |
| Sit on one's heels | 3 answers |
| Crouch down | 8 answers |
| crouch | 14 answers |
| Squat | 27 answers |
| CONSERVATIVE ___ | 65 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
MEEACZ
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with HUNKER (5)
The silver-gray whig shakes hands with the hunker democrat; the former only differing from the latter in name.
When he was told that his feet must be amputated, he said he hoped he would not get well; what could a working-man do in this hard world without feet? He did, in fact, die from the operation, but not before he had deeded Tiny Soderball his claim on Hunker Creek.
Instead, Daylight continued down Hunker to the Klondike, and on to the summer fishing camp of the Indians on the Yukon.
But the Infant had already made the sign, and we heard Imam Din hunker down on the floor: One gets little out of the East at attention.
Hunker’s Mourner Strolling through Lone Mountain cemetery one day my attention was arrested by the inconsolable grief of a granite angel bewailing the loss of “Jacob Hunker, aged 67.” The attitude of utter dejection, the look of matchless misery upon that angel’s face sank into my heart like water into a sponge.
Quotes with HUNKER (3)
When Great Trees Fall When great trees fall, rocks on distant hills shudder, lions hunker downin tall grasses, and even elephantslumber after safety. When great trees fallin forests, small things recoil into silence, their senseseroded beyond fear. When great souls die, the air around us becomeslight, rare, sterile. We breathe, briefly. Our eyes, briefly, see witha hurtful clarity. Our memory, suddenly sharpened, examines, gnaws on kind wordsunsaid, promised walksnever taken.…
Self-preservation is to hunker down in the suffocating confines of this infinitesimally tiny existence that I define as ‘me,’ instead of letting ‘me’ run through the infinitely massive expanse of everything that is not me. And if the beast of self-preservation does not permit such freedoms, I will preserve myself to my own death.
We want life to make sense. If we don’t find meaning and orientation, we are bound to fabulate a living and invent an inspiring life story. When we write out a chosen script, we’ll have to make time to hunker down into attuning it to the hitches of the road map, time and again, with fractious patience. ( "Everybody his story" )
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1987–2022).