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Definition: HUNKER |
HUNKERNoun1. 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. |
Date "HUNKER" was first used: 1720. (references) |
Crosswords: HUNKER |
| English words defined with "HUNKER": hunker down. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "HUNKER": Hunkers. (references) |
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Hunker, Pennsylvania."
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | The strife, between an old hunker, a barnburner and a no party man. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | An old hunker fishing for votes. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "HUNKER" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "HUNKER" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "HUNKER" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Hunker | Last name | 200 | 37,771 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
1. Hunker, PA (borough, FIPS 36288) |
Expression using "HUNKER": hunker down. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
hunker pa | 5 |
down hunker | 2 |
hunker | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "HUNKER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | ulem galiç. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | старомоден (antiquated, archaic, corny, dowdy, fossil, fusty, moldy, obsolete, old fashioned, old hat, old time, out of date, outmoded, passe, primitive, quaint, square-toed, traditional), реакционер (obscurant, reactionary, reactionist, rightist, right-winger), демократ (demo, democrat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | sedìt na bobku (sit on one's haunches, squat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | سرپاایستادن , روی پنجه پاایستادن , دولاشدن (Crouch, Stoop). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | fenék (arse, ass, backside, bottom, botty, breech, bum, buttocks, fanny, hams, kazoo, posterior, posteriors, prat, rear, tail), far (arse, bum, buttocks, croup, derričre, pelvic limb, rump, tail). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | bercangkung (squat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | unkerhay pedaço grande, desusado (uncommon, unusual, unwonted, worm-eaten). (various references) старомодный (antiquated, fogey, fogy, frumpish, frumpy, fusty, moldy, moss-grown, mouldy, of the old school, old fashioned, old-fashioned, old-style, outmoded, primitive, victorian), ретроград (retrograde). (various references) nazadnjak (obscurant, reactionary), nazadnjački, nazadan (backward, reactionary, regressive, retrogressive), konzervativan (conservative), konzervativac (diehard, junker, mossback, old fogey). (various references) cadera (hip, huckle), agachar (duck). (various references) นั่งขั"สมาธิ (hunker down). (various references) сідниця (breech), сидіти навпочіпки (hunker down, squat), ретроград (retrograde, slowcoach), мракобіс (obscurant, obscurantist). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "HUNKER": hunkered, hunkering, hunkers. (additional references) | |
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"HUNKER" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Chunker, funker, hankel, hanken, hauker, Heneker, Hinke, Homkirk, honeker, honken, hucker, hunder, Huneker, hunkerd, hunkey, Hunkie, hunner, lunker, Munkar. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "HUNKER" (pronounced hu"ngker) |
| 4 | -u" ng k er | bunker, clunker, Dunker, junker, plunker, younker. |
| 3 | -ng k er | anchor, banker, canker, conquer, danker, drinker, freethinker, hanker, linker, pinker, rancor, ranker, reconquer, sinker, supertanker, tanker, thinker, tinker, winker, yonker. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-h-k-n-r-u" | |
-2 letters: hern, hunk, kern, knur, kune, neuk, nuke, rune. | |
-3 letters: ern, hen, her, hue, hun, ken, kue, rue, run, uke, urn. | |
-4 letters: eh, en, er, he, ne, nu, re, uh, un. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-h-k-n-r-u" | |
+1 letter: hunkers, hunkier. | |
+2 letters: chunkier, hunkered, shrunken, unkosher. | |
+3 letters: hunkering, preshrunk, roughneck, shunpiker. | |
+4 letters: cornhusker, keypuncher, roughnecks, shunpikers. | |
+5 letters: cornhuskers, housebroken, huckstering, keypunchers, preshrunken, thankfuller, trunkfishes. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 55 4E 4B 45 52 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... ..- -. -.- . .-. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01010101 01001110 01001011 01000101 01010010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H U N K E R |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0055 004E 004B 0045 0052 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)425548453952 |
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