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Hunker   /hˈəŋkər/   Listen
Hunker

verb
1.
Sit on one's heels.  Synonyms: crouch, hunker down, scrunch, scrunch up, squat.  "The children hunkered down to protect themselves from the sandstorm"






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"Hunker" Quotes from Famous Books



... the second speaker, "the raison as why I asked that there question is that we'll be gettin' to Hunker's ordinary at the four corners right smart off now, and I was calculatin' if you had enough of the rags with you to set us up a drink all round? 'T won't cost more 'n ten thousand dollars if Hunkers ain't ...
— Janice Meredith • Paul Leicester Ford

... by surprise. Nick made one spring and came down astride his sleepy mustang, with force enough to have crushed a smaller beast. We all rose to our feet, except Jerry Hunker, who was lying flat on his stomach, with his head buried in his arms, and whom we had thought sound asleep. One look at him reassured us as to the "owl" business, and we settled back, each man pretending to his neighbour that he had got up merely ...
— Cobwebs From an Empty Skull • Ambrose Bierce (AKA: Dod Grile)



Words linked to "Hunker" :   sit down, squat, scrunch, sit, hunker down, scrunch up, crouch



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