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hanker after |
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hanker after someone or something and hanker for someone or something Rur. to want someone or something; to long for someone or something. I hanker after a nice big beefsteak for dinner. See also: after How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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I don't take to Sunday-school books, dontchuknow--I don't hanker after them when I can get pie--but I READ them, anyway, because whatever the old man tells me to do, that's the thing that I'm a-going to DO, or tear something, you know. I don't know whether it is that I am built wrong, but I never did seem to hanker after tombstones myself. |
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