Crossword-Solution: HANKER
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Hanker | v. i. | 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 | v. i. | To linger in expectation or with desire. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| HANKER | anagram | HARKEN, KANHER |
We have 40 clues for the answer “HANKER”
| Clue | Answers |
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| unwish | 1 answer |
| Desire strongly (with "for") | 1 answer |
| crave after | 1 answer |
| have at heart | 1 answer |
| RESTLESS longing | 2 answers |
| Have a longing | 3 answers |
| Have a yearning | 3 answers |
| Crave, with "for" | 6 answers |
| wish otherwise | 8 answers |
| lust for | 8 answers |
| Run after | 8 answers |
| Have a yen (for) | 9 answers |
| promise oneself | 10 answers |
| Itch (for) | 12 answers |
| Must-have | 13 answers |
| Covet | 13 answers |
| Thirst (for) | 13 answers |
| dream of | 14 answers |
| Must have | 15 answers |
| Yearn (for) | 16 answers |
| Wish (for) | 18 answers |
| Long (for) | 18 answers |
| ACHE (FOR) | 19 answers |
| Yen | 20 answers |
| Yearn | 20 answers |
| Solicit | 25 answers |
| ASK (FOR) | 29 answers |
| Woo | 30 answers |
| FEEL like | 30 answers |
| "Sigh!" | 36 answers |
| Crave | 44 answers |
| Ache | 45 answers |
| Long | 51 answers |
| BRITISH county | 56 answers |
| Thirst | 56 answers |
| English county | 61 answers |
| Envy | 63 answers |
| Itch | 64 answers |
| Wish ___ | 68 answers |
| Desire | 70 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
AEAR
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with HANKER (5)
When he’s drunk, there ain’t no near-sighted man could tell him from a king.” “Well, anyways, I doan’ hanker for no mo’ un um, Huck.
They will begin to want your countenance in the camp directly, and we need hanker after no too narrow inquiries for what’s along.” So thereon we set off, Ylga and I, leaving the lights of the bivouac behind us, and she showed the way, whilst I carried my weapons ready to ward off attacks whether from beasts or from men.
Most women would love you--were it but for that dark face and great handsome body of yours--and yet you must needs hanker after the one in a thousand who will have no traffic with you.” As I returned to my bed I chuckled much to myself over this thought.
The civilization we have boasted of is a toy-shop and a blind alley, and I hanker for the open country.” This confounded nonsense was well received.
The only exception to this rule is a vertical dive, and I think that is obviously not an attitude for any but very experienced pilots to hanker after.
Quotes with HANKER (3)
death Aloneness has been my constant companion in life. I lost early the people that I loved: first when my young and unmarried biological mother had to leave me because of outer circumstances. I was adopted by a very loving couple, who could not concieve a child. I have always felt naturally loved by them, and I have never really felt that I was adopted. Instead, I have always felt that I did a little detour to be able to be adopted by my real parents. Then my mother died wh…
I have heard that, with some persons, temperance — that is, moderation — is almost impossible; and if abstinence be an evil (which some have doubted), no one will deny that excess is a greater. Some parents have entirely prohibited their children from tasting intoxicating liquors; but a parent’s authority cannot last for ever; children are naturally prone to hanker after forbidden things; and a child, in such a case, would be likely to have a strong curiosity to taste, and tr…
Take full account of what Excellencies you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 21 times in crossword archives (1996–2023).