hankering
pronunciation
How to pronounce hankering in British English:
UK [ˈhæŋkərɪŋ]
How to pronounce hankering in American English:
US [ ˈhæŋkərɪŋ]
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- Noun:
- a yearning for something or to do something
Word Origin
- hankering (n.)
- "mental craving," 1660s, verbal noun from hanker.
Example
- 1. European nations , in particular , maintained a hankering for fixed exchange rates .
- 2. The country lacks a large constituency of disaffected , facebook-friendly twentysomethings hankering for regime change .
- 3. But there is scant evidence that chinese car buyers are hankering for the good old days when state-owned manufacturers made cars named after beijing , shanghai or the red flag of communism .
- 4. Meanwhile , david cameron , the uk prime minister , evidently hankering for the days of the east india company , seems to want to refashion the british diplomatic corps into a commercial salesforce .
- 5. There was never any doubting mr khamenei 's hankering for revenge over the two men , both former loyalists who have turned against the regime , and his countervailing fear that to do so might spark a popular explosion .