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- noun A person who
hankers
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Examples
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No hankerer after an east wind should be without them.
Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler William Senior
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The stingy hankerer after what Corny called four inches of dirt was his father.
A Jolly Fellowship Frank Richard Stockton 1868
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He was a lewd and filthy villain, a hankerer after alchemy, an astrologer and a hunter of hidden hoards, such an one as he of whom quoth the poet,
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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a lewd and filthy villain, a hankerer after alchemy, an astrologer and a hunter of hidden hoards, such an one as he of whom quoth the poet,
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