Word Meanings - HANKER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Etym: 1. To long 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. Addison. He was hankering to join his friend. J. A. Symonds.

Additional info about word: HANKER

Etym: 1. To long 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. Addison. He was hankering to join his friend. J. A. Symonds. 2. To linger in expectation or with desire. Thackeray.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of HANKER)

• Covet
• Long for
• wish for
• yearn for
• hanker
• desire

Related words: (words related to HANKER)

• YEARN
  To pain; to grieve; to vex. "She laments, sir, for it, that it would yearn your heart to see it." Shak. It yearns me not if men my garments wear. Shak. (more info) ierman, yrman, or geierman, geyrman, fr. earm wretched, poor; akin to D. & G.
• HANKERINGLY
  In a hankering manner.
• COVETIVENESS
  Acquisitiveness.
• YEARNINGS
  The maws, or stomachs, of young calves, used a rennet for curdling milk.
• COVETABLE
  That may be coveted; desirable.
• DESIREFUL
  Filled with desire; eager. The desireful troops. Godfrey .
• HANKER
  Etym: 1. To long 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. Addison. He was hankering to join his friend. J. A. Symonds.
• COVETOUSLY
  In a covetous manner.
• COVETOUS
  1. Very desirous; eager to obtain; -- used in a good sense. Covetous of wisdom and fair virtue. Shak. Covetous death bereaved us all, To aggrandize one funeral. Emerson. 2. Inordinately desirous; excessively eager to obtain and possess
• DESIRER
  One who desires, asks, or wishes.
• COVETOUSNESS
  1. Strong desire. When workmen strive to do better than well, They do confound their skill in covetousness. Shak. 2. A strong or inordinate desire of obtaining and possessing some supposed good; excessive desire for riches or money; -- in a bad
• COVETISE
  Avarice. Spenser.
• DESIRELESS
  Free from desire. Donne.
• DESIREFULNESS
  The state of being desireful; eagerness to obtain and possess. The desirefulness of our minds much augmenteth and increaseth our pleasure. Udall.
• YEARNINGLY
  With yearning.
• COVET
  derivative fr. L. cupere to desire; cf. Skr. kup to become excited. 1. To wish for with eagerness; to desire possession of; -- used in a good sen Covet earnestly the best gifts. 1. Cor. xxii. 31. If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the
• YEARNFUL
  Desirous. Ormulum. P. Fletcher.
• DESIRE
  sidus star, constellation, and hence orig., to turn the eyes from the 1. To long for; to wish for earnestly; to covet. Neither shall any man desire thy land. Ex. xxxiv. 24. Ye desire your child to live. Tennyson. 2. To express a wish
• COVETER
  One who covets.
• MISCOVET
  To covet wrongfully.