| 单词 | hunker |
| 释义 | hunker (once / 14521 pages) v To hunker is to crouch: to bend your body into a low, small shape. When you're playing hide and seek, you may decide to hunker in the back of a closet until you're found. You hunker physically when you're hiding or making space for other people or squatting to talk to a small child. You can also hunker figuratively, like when you hunker down in your house during a snowstorm, waiting to venture out until the roads have been plowed. Another way to hunker down is to focus on a task and work extra hard. We know hunker is a Scottish word, but beyond that its origins aren't clear. WORD FAMILYhunker: hunkered, hunkering, hunkers USAGE EXAMPLESAnd fear that something even worse might lie ahead caused consumers to hunker down and stop spending. Time(Dec 22, 2016) Solar power companies, meanwhile, are hunkering down for a rough 2017. Reuters(Dec 15, 2016) In the northeast, you quickly find yourself in Irish countryside: ash trees, low stone walls, thick-walled homes hunkered down against the chill. The New Yorker(Dec 10, 2016) v sit on one's heels The children hunkered down to protect themselves from the sandstorm Syn|Hyper crouch, hunker down, scrunch, scrunch up, squat sit, sit down be seated |
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