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单词 hunker
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hunkern.

Brit. /ˈhʌŋkə/, U.S. /ˈhəŋkər/
Etymology: apparently < hunks n. + -er suffix1. Remembered by Mr. W. J. Stillman as familiarly used c1840 at Schenectady New York, ‘to designate a surly, crusty, or stingy old fellow, a curmudgeon’. But some would refer it to hunk n.2 as ‘one who sticks to his post, or home’.
U.S. ? Obsolete.
In U.S. politics: A conservative, one opposed to innovation or change; a nickname first used in the State of New York about 1845.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > American politics > [noun] > principles or policies > adherents or supporters of
well-born1629
liberty boy1766
federalist1787
anti1788
Fed1788
monocrat1792
anti-federal1805
blue light1814
dough face1820
colonizationist1823
slavite1831
hunker1849
states' righter1861
slavist1889
Little American1899
New Frontiersman1923
America Firster1927
new federalist1969
angry white male1991
angry white man1993
AWM1994
1849 N.Y. Evening Post 11 July He is now the leader of the hunkers of Missouri.
1856 Househ. Words 9 Aug. 86/1 Hunker is derived from a popular nickname for a self-satisfied, surly rich man; a descendant of Old Hunks in fact.
1859 W. Phillips Speeches 268 Egypt, the hunker conservative of antiquity.
1864 Boston (Mass.) Commonw. 3 June The judge, a white-haired old man, well preserved, and a stickler for law and precedent and a ‘hunker’.

Derivatives

ˈhunkerism n.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > American politics > [noun] > principles or policies
federalism1787
state rights1787
colonizationism1831
hunkerism1845
Reconstructionism1881
Little Americanism1898
Point Four1949
fairness doctrine1952
new frontier1961
Great Society1964
eleventh commandment1966
Nixon Doctrine1969
society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > groups or attitudes right to left > [noun] > the right > attitudes of
servilism1821
conservatism1832
conservativeness1832
conservativism1834
hunkerism1845
rightism1934
right-wingism1951
1845 R. Tyler Let. 19 Apr. in L. G. Tyler Lett. & Times Tylers (1896) III. 161 Every appointment made for New York or Pennsylvania or Maryland is a restoration of Hunkerism.
1848 C. A. Loomis Let. 23 Jan. in Michigan Hist. Mag. (1926) X. 216 Old Hunkerism is predominant, but it is hunkerism without brains.
1863 W. Phillips Speeches 365 All this fossil hunkerism is to linger thirty or forty years.
1863 W. Phillips Speeches 528 I resolve hunkerism into indolence and cowardice, too lazy to think, and too timid to think.
1906 Springfield (Mass.) Weekly Republican 6 Dec. 8 The old republican hunkerism.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

hunkerv.

Brit. /ˈhʌŋkə/, U.S. /ˈhəŋkər/, Scottish English /ˈhʌŋkər/
Etymology: Origin obscure: it has the form of an iterative from a stem hunk-. Compare Middle Dutch hucken, huken (Verwijs and Verdam), Middle Low German hûken, Dutch huiken (Franck), Old Norse húka, modern German hocken (Kluge) to sit on the hams or heels, to squat. These words point to an original ablaut series heuk-, hûk, huk- (hok-); from this hunk-er, might perhaps be a nasalized derivative. Old Norse hok-ra to crouch may be a parallel form; Dutch hunkeren to hanker, is not connected.
Originally Scottish.
a. intransitive. To squat, with the haunches, knees, and ankles acutely bent, so as to bring the hams near the heels, and throw the whole weight upon the fore part of the feet.
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the world > space > relative position > posture > action of crouching or squatting > crouch or squat [verb (intransitive)]
ruck?c1225
cowerc1300
crouchc1394
couch?a1400
hurklea1400
quatc1425
squat1573
squat1609
thigh1611
swat1615
hunker1720
lower1720
squattle1786
croodle1788
scrooch1844
1720 A. Pennecuik Streams from Helicon (ed. 2) i. 80 And hunk'ring down upon the cald Grass.
1768 A. Ross Fortunate Shepherdess ii. 81 Upo' the ground they hunker'd down a' three.
1789 D. Davidson Thoughts Seasons 179 Tir'd wi' the steep, an' something dizzy, I hunker'd down.
a1801 R. Gall Tint Quey 177 Then hunkering down upo' her knees, Poor Hornie o' her milk to ease.
1897 S. R. Crockett Lads' Love iii. 29 He appeared..with his hands on his knees, ‘hunkering’ a little.
1902 Dial. Notes 2 237 (Pioneer dialect of S. Illinois.) Hunker down. 1. To crouch in sitting. 2. To kneel.
1907 R. Kipling Actions & Reactions (1909) 187 We heard Imam Din hunker down on the floor. One gets little out of the East at attention.
1928 J. M. Barrie Peter Pan ii, in Plays 39 Hunkering on the ground..the six are not unlike village gossips gathered round the pump.
1945 J. Steinbeck Cannery Row vii. 26 Mack and the boys sat on the floor, played cards hunkered down.
1946 K. Tennant Lost Haven (1947) ix. 129 Kelly got up, came out, and hunkered down by the sunny office wall. George hunkered down beside him.
1962 Coast to Coast 1961–2 85 The old woman had hunkered down, poking intently at an hibachi, some embers glowing darkly beneath.
1973 N.Y. Times 14 Aug. 34/3 One 14-year-old boy sat on a hornet when he hunkered down to get a better view of the green.
b. transferred. To cower or squat in a lowly manner.
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1790 A. Wilson Poems 210 A wee bit Cot, Bare, hunkerin' on some lanely spot.

Draft additions 1993

c. figurative. With down. To concentrate one's resources, esp. in unfavourable circumstances; to dig in, buckle down; spec. (frequently in Military contexts) to shelter or take cover, lie low. Originally and chiefly U.S.
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society > occupation and work > working > [verb (intransitive)] > work hard or toil
workeOE
swingc1000
to the boneOE
labourc1390
toilc1400
drevyll?1518
drudge1548
droy1576
droil1591
to tug at the (an) oar1612
to stand to it1632
rudge1676
slave1707
to work like a beaver1741
to hold (also keep, bring, put) one's nose to the grindstone1828
to feague it away1829
to work like a nigger1836
delve1838
slave1852
leather1863
to sweat one's guts out1890
hunker1903
to sweat (also work) one's guts out1932
to eat (also work) like a horse1937
beaver1946
to work like a drover's dog1952
to get one's nose down (to)1962
the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > begin action or activity [verb (intransitive)] > resolutely or energetically
to go to it1490
busklea1535
settle1576
to lay on1587
to put in (also get into) one's gearsa1658
to put (occasionally lay, set) one's shoulder to the wheel1678
yark1721
to get going1822
to pitch in1835
to roll up one's sleeves1838
square1849
to clap on1850
to wire in (also away)1864
to dig in1884
hunker1903
tie into1904
to get cracking1937
to get stuck in1938
to get weaving1942
to get it on1954
society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > shelter or screen > take shelter [verb (intransitive)]
hunker1975
1903 Dial. Notes 2 317 Hunker or hunker down, v.i...to get down to one's work.
1975 Chem. Week 8 Jan. 31/2 There comes a time..when you should hunker down and ride out the storm.
1984 N. Giovanni in M. Evans Black Women Writers 207 We must hunker down into that love of the spirit of Black Americans that allowed a janitor to be a deacon in a church.
1988 Truck & Driver Oct. 49/2 I left the down-change too late and missed the gear. But the Fiat was kindly and just hunkered down and powered on from low revs once a lower gear was pushed in.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

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hunker
hunker n. a cutter of hunks.Apparently an isolated use.
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1864 G. A. Sala in Daily Tel. 27 Sept. The butchers..seem to have been taking lessons from the live-collop hunkers of Abyssinia.
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