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Hunker   /hˈəŋkər/   Listen
Hunker

verb
1.
Sit on one's heels.  Synonyms: crouch, hunker down, scrunch, scrunch up, squat.  "The children hunkered down to protect themselves from the sandstorm"






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"Hunker" Quotes from Famous Books



... on Hunker Creek sounded good to Phillips. Big Lars Anderson had been one of the first arrivals from Circle City; already he was rated a millionaire, for luck had smiled upon him; his name was one to conjure with. Pierce was about to accept the offer made when ...
— The Winds of Chance • Rex Beach

... turned his eyes to the northward ridge of hills, and pondered if the gold came from them. In the end, he ascended Dominion Creek to its head, crossed the divide, and came down on the tributary to the Klondike that was later to be called Hunker Creek. While on the divide, had he kept the big dome on his right, he would have come down on the Gold Bottom, so named by Bob Henderson, whom he would have found at work on it, taking out the first pay-gold ever panned on the Klondike. ...
— Burning Daylight • Jack London



Words linked to "Hunker" :   scrunch up, crouch, squat, hunker down, sit down, scrunch, sit



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