hanker

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to have a strong or persistent desire for something, usually followed by for or after

   After months inland, she began to hanker for the sea.

Recorded in English from the seventeenth century and probably related to Dutch hunkeren, 'to crave or long for.' The exact earlier history is uncertain, though the word has sometimes been connected with hang in the sense of lingering after something desired.

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