What does hanker mean?
Hanker means To crave, want or desire..
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/ˈhæŋkə(ɹ)/ · verb
To crave, want or desire..
If you hanker for chocolate, you'll like this fudge recipe.
“O ’tis true enough, faith. I cannot understand Farmer Boldwood being such a fool at his time of life as to ho and hanker after thik^([sic]) woman in the way ’a do, and she not care a bit about en.”
“Baked, they were tough; and even boiled, they warn’t things for a hungry man to hanker after.”
I objected. I don’t know whether it is that I am built wrong, but I never did seem to hanker after tombstones myself.
[…] it made us heroes, and that was what Tom Sawyer had always been hankering to be.
She bade him good-night and hurried down the road. Next day he took her in a little watch with a brooch to pin on her dress. She had been hankering for it.
Very greatly, as a boy, used I to hanker to ride within those friendly-looking cabs and to look out through those shining spectacles along those straight clean boilers towards those familiar flared-out chimneys. Now it was to be.
[…] the newly rich hanker after old aristocratic glitz.
Use hanker when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Hanker means To crave, want or desire..
Common synonyms include covet, long, yearn.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
If you hanker for chocolate, you'll like this fudge recipe.
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