HANKER, HANKERING
ADJECTIVES
1814 ► SIGHING FOR THE FLESH-POTS OF EGYPT hankering for good things no longer at your command
1858 ► TITILLATING itching, tingling; craving, hankering
NOUNS
1553 ► TICKLING an ‘itching’ to do something; an uneasy desire, craving, hankering
L16 ► SMACKERING an inclination towards or hankering after or for a person or thing
19C ► HANKLING a hankering, a craving after → Eng. dial.
VERBS
1655 ► HANG A NOSE to have an inclination or hankering → obs.
1721 ► HAKE to hanker or gape after → Eng. dial.
19C ► HANKLE to greatly desire, to hanker after → Eng. dial.
1873 ► ETTLE to show great eagerness to do or begin anything; to hanker or yearn after → Sc.
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