how to pronounce hunker

/ˈhʌŋ.kəɹ/

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hunker is pronounced in two syllables

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An example use of hunker in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… the castle hunker down and avoid the …”

meanings of hunker

verb:

To crouch or squat close to the ground or lie down.
To apply oneself to a task.

noun:

A political conservative.

hunker frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word hunker occurs in english on average 0 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics hunker can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that hunker can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;

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