hunker
See also: Hunker
English edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈhʌŋkə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈhʌŋkɚ/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ʌŋkə(ɹ)
Etymology 1 edit
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”), [1] 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).[2]
Probable cognates include Old Norse húka, Dutch huiken, and German hocken.
Verb edit
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
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To crouch, squat or lie down
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Etymology 2 edit
Unknown
Noun edit
hunker (plural hunkers)
- (dated) A political conservative.
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References edit
- ^ “hunker”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
- ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “hukan”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 252
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hunker
- inflection of hunkeren: