To long (for) with a keen appetite and uneasiness; to have a vehement desire; usually with for or after; as, to hanker after fruit; to hanker after the diversions of the town. "He was hankering to join his friend."
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"Hankering" Quotes from Famous Books — Heart of Darkness • Joseph Conrad — The Light That Failed • Rudyard Kipling — A Tramp's Notebook • Morley Roberts — Innocents abroad • Mark Twain — Peter the Whaler • W.H.G. Kingston |
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