单词 | hankering |
释义 | hankeringn. A mental craving or longing. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > longing or yearning > [noun] ondeeOE yearningeOE longingOE forlonginga1250 mourningc1300 yering13.. eye-seke?c1500 panting1580 greening1584 smackeringa1586 brame1590 languora1599 earning1603 lingering1608 yawning1635 tantalizing1640 slavering1642 longingness1651 tantalization1654 twittering1668 hankering1678 honing1725 lech1796 yearna1797 languishment1817 yearningness1839 hanker1881 tantalizingness1889 yen1906 1678 S. Butler Hudibras: Third Pt. iii. ii. 107 And felt such Bowel-Hankerings, To see an Empire all of Kings. a1680 J. Bargrave Pope Alexander VII (1867) i. xl. 79 He had an ambitious hankering after a cap. 1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 431. ⁋3 I then took a strange Hankering to Coals; I fell to scranching 'em. a1790 B. Franklin Autobiogr. (1981) i. 11 I..still had a Hankering for the Sea. 1893 A. Jessopp Stud. Recluse vii. 217 The hankering for what we call sympathy is the virtue—or the vice—of advanced civilisation. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2018). > as lemmasˈhankering ˈhankering adj. Π 1864 [see hankeringly adv.]. < as lemmas |
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