Hanker vs Beg - What's the difference?
hanker | beg | Related terms |
To crave, want or desire.
*2012 , The Economist, 13 Oct 2012,
*:[...] the newly rich hanker after old aristocratic glitz.
to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
to plead with someone for help, a favor, etc.; to entreat
* Shakespeare
* Bible, Matthew xxvii. 58
* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 5
to assume, in the phrase (beg the question)
(proscribed) to raise a question, in the phrase (beg the question)
(legal, obsolete) To ask to be appointed guardian for, or to ask to have a guardian appointed for.
* Harrington
As verbs the difference between hanker and beg
is that hanker is to crave, want or desire while beg is to request the help of someone, often in the form of money.As a noun beg is
a provincial governor under the Ottoman Empire, a bey.hanker
English
Verb
(en verb)- If you hanker for chocolate, you'll like this fudge recipe.
Butlers: Very good, sir
Usage notes
* Usually used with for, as in the example above; after may also be used.Anagrams
*beg
English
(wikipedia beg)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), assimilation from (etyl) *.Verb
(begg)- He begged on the street corner from passers-by.
- I beg your pardon. I didn't mean to cause offence.
- He begged her to go to the prom with him .
- I do beg your good will in this case.
- [Joseph] begged the body of Jesus.
- But that same day came Sam Tewkesbury to the Why Not? about nightfall, and begged a glass of rum, being, as he said, 'all of a shake'
- Else some will beg thee, in the court of wards.
