hunker

Signification (Anglais)

Verb

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

Noun

A political conservative.

Concepts

s’accroupir

baisser

incliner

se tapir

accroupir

Synonymes

crouch

scrunch

squat

scrunch up

hunker down

retrograde person

bow

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reactionary

bend

Traductions

ficar de cócoras

agachar

accovacciarsi

accoccolarsi

arrupir-se

posar-se a la gatzoneta

ajupir-se

arraulir-se

kauern

hocken

acquattare

chinare

inchinare

rannicchiarsi

acotxar-se

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈhʌŋkə/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Appartenant à écossais: hoonk

Appartenant à écossais: hocker

In summary

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