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Hunkers  n. pl.  In the phrase on one's hunkers, in a squatting or crouching position; haunches. (Scot. & Local, U. S.) "Sit on your hunkers and pray for the bridge."





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"Hunkers" Quotes from Famous Books



... deserted. The footman had hardly descended to what he termed his "hunkers," and begun to search the pavement about the spot which the old man indicated, when Mr. Peters, who seemed very much exhausted, and breathed with difficulty, struck him a violent blow, from above, over the back of the head with a heavy instrument, and then another; and ...
— Green Tea; Mr. Justice Harbottle • Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
 
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