hunker

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈhʌŋkə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈhʌŋkɚ/

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• Rhymes: -ʌŋkə(ɹ)

Originally Scottish. Origin uncertain, but probably of Germanic origin, perhaps *hunk- a nasalised variant of *huk- (compare Scots hoonk, hounk, variants of huk, hok (“to squat, crouch”); Scots hocker (“to crouch down, hunker”)), all of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse huka (“to crouch”), ^[1] from Proto-Germanic *hūkan- (“to squat”), from *hūkkan-, back-formed from the iterative *huk(k)ōn-, from Proto-Indo-European *kuk-néh₂, from *kewk- (“to curve, bend”) (also the source of high).^[2]

Probable cognates include Old Norse húka, Dutch huiken, and German hocken.

hunker (third-person singular simple present hunkers, present participle hunkering, simple past and past participle hunkered)

1. (intransitive) To crouch or squat close to the ground or lie down
2. (intransitive) To apply oneself to a task

• (crouch, squat or lie): crouch, squat, lie

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hunker (plural hunkers)

1. (dated) A political conservative.

• hunkers

• Ruhnke

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• Rhymes: -ʏŋkər

hunker

1. inflection of hunkeren:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

• hurken