I'm hankering after a hamburger and fries but I don't have a grill and it's not safe to go out to eat.
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Hankering
Synonyms for "hankering" (39 found)
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15 translations across 8 languages.
Dutch
1 entries- hunkering noun (strong desire)
Finnish
4 entries- halu noun (strong desire)
- havittelu noun (strong desire)
- hinku noun (strong desire)
- kaipaus noun (strong desire)
Italian
2 entries- desiderio noun (strong desire)
- esigenza noun (strong desire)
Māori
1 entries- tōminatanga noun (strong desire)
Norwegian
2 entries- lengsel noun (strong desire)
- lyst noun (strong desire)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Janka noun (strong desire)
Portuguese
1 entries- afã noun (strong desire)
Russian
2 entries- страстное жела́ние noun (strong desire)
- тяга noun (strong desire)
Sample sentences
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"[…] You don't mean," Mr. Osborne continued, gathering wrath and astonishment as the thought now first came upon him; "you don't mean that he's such a d—— fool as to be still hankering after that swindling old bankrupt's daughter? […]"
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One may say that hankering after naughty things is the very essence of the evil into which we have been precipitated by Adam's fall.
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[T]here is a clear sense that Britain is hankering for a change at the top.
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