hanker

hanker has 3 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 6.

Definitions

• v. i.. To long (for) with a keen appetite and uneasiness; to have a vehement desire; -- usually with for or after; as, to hanker after fruit; to hanker after the diversions of the town.
• v. i.. To linger in expectation or with desire.
• v.. desire strongly or persistently