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Definition: Hankering |
HankeringNoun1. A yearning for something or to do something. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "hankering" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
Synonym: HankeringSynonym: yen (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Desire | Longing, hankering, inkling; solicitude, anxiety; yearning, coveting; aspiration, ambition, vaulting ambition; eagerness, zeal, ardor, empressement, breathless impatience, overanxiety; impetuosity,. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Hankering |
| English words defined with "hankering": Hankeringly. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "hankering": Flesh-pots. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "hankering": hanker. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I've got a real hankering for fried chicken. (VeggieTales: Dave and the Giant Pickle; writing credit: Frank Daniel; Alain Robbe-Grillet) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| "Hankering" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 96.30% of the time. "Hankering" is used about 27 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 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 96.3% | 26 | 68,323 |
| Noun (singular) | 3.7% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 27 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "hankering": have a hankering. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "hankering"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | etje (anxiety, avidity, cupidity, desire, drought, eagerness, hunger, thirst, voracity), dëshirim (longing). (various references) | |
Arabic | لهفة (eagerness, longing, regret, yearning), صبا شوق (longing, nostalgia), أشواق (nostalgia). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | стремеж (aim, appetite, drift, intent, intention, search, seeking, striving, yen, zeal), копнеж (ache, hunger, urge, yearning, yen). (various references) | |
Czech | toužení, neodolatelná touha (compelling desire, craving). (various references) | |
French | rêve de qch, envie. (various references) | |
German | verlangen (anxiety, appetence, appetite, appetites, ask, ask for, ask to see, call for, call out for, craving, demand, desire, itch, long for, longing, lust, postulate, request, require, requisition, stipulate, to demand, to require, urge, want, yearn, yearning), sich sehnend (yearning). (various references) | |
Greek | μεγάλη επιθυμία. (various references) | |
Hebrew | ערי'" (longing, panting, yearning), "שתוקקות (craving, longing, solicitude, yearning), 'ע'ועים (ache, craving, longing, nostalgia, yearning). (various references) | |
Hungarian | vágyódás (aspiration, hunger, itch, longing, longing for sg, nostalgia), sóvárgás (appetence, appetency, covetousness, craving, cupidity, greed, longing, yearning). (various references) | |
Italian | brama (anxiety, appetence, appetency, craving, desire, longing, lust, lustfulness). (various references) | |
Manx | mianey (desire, fancy, hanker, long, lust, wish), foddeeaght (distance, homesickness, longing, nostalgia). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ankeringhay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | suspirar por (crave, pantaloon), aspiração (ambition, aspiration, breathing, desideratum, desire, inhale, sniffing, suction, suction drainage), ânsia (agony, craving, death agony, death throes, desire, eagle, heat, longing, nausea, thirst, want, yearning). (various references) | |
Romanian | dor (grief, longing, sorrow, wish, woe), aspiraţie (aspiration, sniff, suck, suction). (various references) | |
Russian | страстное желание (concupiscence, craving, hanker). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | žudnja (avidity, craving, eagerness, hanker, hunger, longing, lust, thirst, yen). (various references) | |
Spanish | de anhelo, de añoranza, anhelo (anxiety, appetite, craving, desire, eagerness, longing, yearning), añoranza (homesickness, yearning). (various references) | |
Swedish | längtan (aspiration, desire, hunger, longing, want, wish, yearning, yen), åtråvärd (desirable). (various references) | |
Turkish | hasret (craving, longing, nostalgia, sick, sighed-for, yearning), canı isteme, arzu (affect, appetence, appetency, appetite, aspiration, conation, craving, desire, hunger, intentness, longing, lust, maggot, passion, prurience, pruriency, rage, request, thirst, urge, want, will, willingness, wish, yearning, yen), özlem (aspiration, craving, hunger, longing, missing, nostalgia, yearning, yen). (various references) | |
Ukranian | палке бажання (craving, longing). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự thèm muốn (covetousness, craving, desire, envy), sự khao khát (avidity, hunger, thirst), sự ao ước (desire, yearning). (various references) | |
Welsh | ysfa (itching). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "hankering" (pronounced ha"ngkering) |
| 6 | -a" ng k er i ng | anchoring. |
| 5 | -ng k er i ng | conquering, hunkering, tinkering. |
| 4 | -k er i ng | bickering, brokering, dickering, flickering, massacring, snickering. |
| 3 | -er i ng | administering, altering, angering, answering, auguring, backfiring, badgering, bantering, bartering, battering, belaboring, beleaguering, bettering, bewildering, blistering, blundering, blustering, bolstering, bordering, bothering, butchering, capturing, catering, censoring, centering, chartering, chattering, clamoring, clobbering, clustering, cluttering, coloring, configuring, conjuring, considering, cornering, countering, covering, cowering, culturing, deciphering, delivering, desiring, devouring, diapering, differing, discovering, disfavoring, disfiguring, dismembering, dithering, doctoring, doddering, embroidering, empowering, encountering, endangering, endeavoring, entering, factoring, faltering, fathering, favoring, feathering, featuring, festering, figuring, filibustering, filtering, fingering, flattering, flavoring, floundering, flowering, fluttering, fostering, foundering, fracturing, frittering, furthering, garnering, gathering, gerrymandering, gesturing, glimmering, glittering, glowering, grandfathering, guttering, hammering, hampering, harboring, hectoring, hindering, hollering, honoring, hovering, hungering, injuring, inquiring, laboring, laundering, lawyering, layering, lecturing, lettering, levering, lingering, littering, loitering, lowering, lumbering, majoring, maneuvering, manufacturing, mastering, maundering, meandering, measuring, mentoring, metering, minoring, mirroring, mitering, mongering, monitoring, mothering, motoring, murdering, murmuring, mustering, muttering, nattering, neighboring, neutering, nonmanufacturing, numbering, nurturing, offering, ordering, outnumbering, pampering, pandering, papering, partnering, peppering, perjuring, pestering, petering, philandering, picturing, pilfering, plastering, plundering, pondering, posturing, powdering, powering, pressuring, proffering, prospering, puncturing, puttering, quivering, recapturing, reconsidering, recovering, rediscovering, reentering, registering, rejiggering, remembering, rendering, reoffering, reordering, requiring, restructuring, rewiring, rupturing, savoring, scampering, scattering, scouring, sculpturing, sequestering, severing, shattering, sheltering, shimmering, shivering, shouldering, showering, shuddering, shuttering, simmering, slaughtering, slithering, slobbering, slumbering, smattering, smoldering, smothering, sobering, soldering, soldiering, souring, spattering, spiering, splintering, sponsoring, sputtering, squandering, staggering, structuring, stuttering, suffering, surrendering, swaggering, sweltering, tailoring, tampering, tapering, teetering, tempering, tendering, thundering, torturing, tottering, towering, transpiring, triggering, tutoring, uncovering, unflattering, unwavering, ushering, uttering, venturing, wagering, wallpapering, wandering, warmongering, watering, wavering, weathering, whimpering, whispering, withering, wondering, Wuthering, zippering. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: harkening. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-h-i-k-n-n-r" | |
-2 letters: aginner, earning, engrain, gherkin, grannie, hanking, harking, hearing, kerning, narking, nearing, ranking. | |
-3 letters: earing, gainer, ginner, haeing, hanger, hanker, hankie, haring, harken, hegari, hegira, hernia, hinger, inaner, narine, nigher, raking, reagin, regain, regina, rehang. | |
-4 letters: anger, eking, garni, gerah, grain, henna, hiker, hinge, inane, inker, inner, kiang, neigh, range, regna, reign, reink, renig, renin. | |
-5 letters: ager, agin, airn, akin, ankh, earn, gaen, gain, gane, gear, gien, gink, girn, gnar, gran, grin, haen, haik, hair, hake, hang, hank, hare, hark, hear, heir, hern, hike, hire, kain, kane, karn, keir, kern, khan, kier, kina, kine, king, kirn, knar, nark, near, nigh, nine, rage, ragi, rain, rake, raki, rang, rani, rank, rein, rhea, ring, rink. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-h-i-k-n-n-r" | |
+1 letter: hearkening. | |
+3 letters: benchmarking. | |
+4 letters: benchmarkings. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 61 6E 6B 65 72 69 6E 67 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... .- -. -.- . .-. .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01100001 01101110 01101011 01100101 01110010 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H a n k e r i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0061 006E 006B 0065 0072 0069 006E 0067 |
| 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)426780777184758073 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Translations: Modern 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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