hunker
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- Scrabble points
- 13
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- 14
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- 6
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Definition of hunker
4 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included
verb
- (intransitive)To crouch or squat close to the ground or lie down
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verb
- (intransitive)To crouch or squat close to the ground or lie down
- (intransitive)To apply oneself to a task
noun
- (dated)A political conservative.
name
- A surname
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Etymology
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…
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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 *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). Probable cognates include Old Norse húka, Dutch huiken, and German hocken.
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