Hunker
/ˈhʌŋkə/ name, noun, verb
name, noun, verb ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A political conservative. dated
Verb
- 1 To crouch or squat close to the ground or lie down intransitive
- 2 sit on one's heels wordnet
- 3 To apply oneself to a task intransitive
Proper Noun
- 1 A surname
Example
More examples"I'm ready to hunker down for the evening."
Etymology
Etymology 1
Originally Scottish. Origin uncertain, but probably of Germanic origin, perhaps *hunk- a nasalised variant of *huk- (compare Scots hoonk, hounk, variants of huk, hok (“to squat, crouch”); Scots hocker (“to crouch down, hunker”)), all of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse huka (“to crouch”), from Proto-Germanic *hūkan- (“to squat”), from *hūkkan-, back-formed from the iterative *huk(k)ōn-, from Proto-Indo-European *kuk-néh₂, from *kewk- (“to curve, bend”) (also the source of high). Probable cognates include Old Norse húka, Dutch huiken, and German hocken.
Etymology 2
Unknown