hunkers

verb

1. (form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person)third-person singular simple present indicative of hunker

noun

1. (form-of, plural)plural of hunker
2. The haunches.

   “Philip Larkin, Toads For something sufficiently toad-like / Squats in me, too; / Its hunkers are heavy as hard luck, / And cold as snow, […]”