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hucker
English
Etymology
huck +? -er
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -?k?(?)
Noun
hucker (plural huckers)
- Someone who hucks (any meaning)
- A trade ship.
Anagrams
- chuker
Westrobothnian
Verb
hucker (preterite huckrä)
- neigh, of people and animals
- cry, whimper
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hunker
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?h??k?/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?h??k?/
- Rhymes: -??k?(?)
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 *h?kan- (“to squat”), from *h?kkan-, back-formed from the iterative *huk(k)?n-, from Proto-Indo-European *kuk-néh?, from *kewk- (“to curve, bend”) (also the source of high).
Probable cognates include Old Norse húka, Dutch huiken, and German hocken.
Verb
hunker (third-person singular simple present hunkers, present participle hunkering, simple past and past participle hunkered)
- (intransitive) To crouch or squat close to the ground or lie down
- (intransitive) To apply oneself to a task
Synonyms
- (crouch, squat or lie): crouch, squat, lie
Derived terms
- hunkers
- hunker down
Translations
Etymology 2
Unknown
Noun
hunker (plural hunkers)
- (dated) A political conservative.
See also
- hunkers
References
Anagrams
- Ruhnke
Dutch
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -??k?r
Verb
hunker
- first-person singular present indicative of hunkeren
- imperative of hunkeren
Anagrams
- hurken
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