English to Irish Meaning of hanker - hanker

Hanker :

hanker

verb

Hanker :: hankerHankered :: hankeredHankering :: hankeringHankerings :: hankeringsHankers :: hankers

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hanky-panky →

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Definitions of hanker in English

Verb(1) desire strongly or persistently

Examples of hanker in English

(1) Right now it's just after 9am on the East Coast, so many of you are probably just settling in to your chairs with some hot coffee and a hankering to do something other than work.(2) This really got a lot of these cocktail hankerers together in a real way.(3) I still cannot figure out why the machine dials the Internet every 15 minutes; I've checked every program that hankers to be online, and they all insist they're guiltless.(4) Prerequisites are a willingness to experiment, a desire to play, and a hankering to shake up preconceived notions about your art and photography.(5) I still hanker to return home with my family one day but my view of NZ when I was growing up in the 1970's is dead and buried.(6) So, if you have a hankering to be creative and would like to makeover your home this spring, or you have a sewing machine stashed away that you never quite got round to using then this could be the opportunity you have been waiting for.(7) Transcribing and translating all this for English-language HK hankerers is Saskatoon, Saskatchewan's own Sanney Leung.(8) ├ö├ç├┐I know he had a hankering to be hands-on again,├ö├ç├û says McLeish.(9) I had a hankering to resume the game of guessing songs again, although straining to hear other people's personal stereos in the gym is not only sadder than doing it on the bus but it makes you look stupid.(10) Are you hankering to increase your knowledge of lesser psychedelic bands or the maybe just dig up some information on Holland, Dozier and Hollands' ill fated seventies soul label?(11) I want no philosopher queen or king, no prophet exuding revealed truth, no mesmerising Pied Piper, no hawker of appealing mirages, no self-absorbed hankerer for power.(12) The main drag for the fashion hankerer is Strand Arcade in the heart of town.(13) I spent almost the whole day sleeping, which was decidedly lovely, and I've been hankering to play Civilization: Call to Power for a couple of days, so despite a long To Do List, that's what I'm going to do.(14) To be honest, I'm hankering to work on some of my ├ö├ç├┐real├ö├ç├û writing for a bit, maybe putting out two new books using that cool new Cafe Press publishing service.(15) He is also an unrepentantly laid-back hankerer for the surf-and-grass California scene.

Related Phrases of hanker

(1) hanker after ::

hanker tar éis

Related Phrases of hanker

(1) hanker after ::

hanker tar éis

Synonyms

Verb

1. yearn ::

yearn

2. long ::

fada

3. crave ::

crave

4. desire ::

fonn

5. wish ::

mian

6. want ::

ag iarraidh

7. hunger ::

ocras

8. thirst ::

tart

9. lust ::

lust

10. ache ::

pian

11. pant ::

pant

12. be eager ::

a bheith ag dúil

13. be desperate ::

bheith éadóchasach

15. fancy ::

mhaisiúil

16. pine ::

péine

17. be dying ::

a bháis

18. have a yen ::

Tá yen

19. itch ::

itch

Different Forms

hanker, hankered, hankering, hankerings, hankers

English to Irish Dictionary: hanker

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