hunkerishadj.
/ˈhʌŋkərɪʃ/ U.S. colloquial.
Conservative, old-fashioned.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > American politics > [adjective] > favouring specific principles or policies
federal1787
anti-federal1788
rep1812
dough-faced1820
republican1854
hunkerish1857
unreconstructed1865
reservationist1919
America First1925
McCarthyite1952
society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > groups or attitudes right to left > [adjective] > right
illiberal1649
white?1740
right1794
conservative1802
centre-right1822
agricolous1825
hunkerish1857
right wing1857
rightward1887
rightist1894
rightwards1931
right-of-centre1937
establishmentarian1962
righty1970
neo-con1979
New Rightist1981
1857 Lawrence (Kansas Territory) Republican 2 July 3 This has in times past, been considered rather a hunkerish neighbourhood.
1888 W. Lawrence Life Amos A. Lawrence 139 His Kansas experience did not move Mr. Lawrence from his hunkerish sympathies in politics.
1905 Springfield (Mass.) Weekly Republican 8 Sept. 1 The hunkerish conservatism which Mr. Cannon and the Senate stand for.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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adj.1857- stock-minder
- stock-nail
- stock-nut
- stock-office
- stock-owner
- stock-pot
- stock-proof
- stock-punished
- stock-purse
- stock-raiser
- stock-raising
- stock-ranch
- stock-range
- stock-rearing
- stock-rider
- stock-riding
- stock-room
- stock-route
- stock-run
- steepleroofed
- steeples
- steepleshadowed
- steepleshaped
- steeplespire
- steeplestairs