Hanker

·vi To linger in expectation or with desire.

II. Hanker ·vi To long (for) with a keen appetite and uneasiness; to have a vehement desire;

— usually with for or after; as, to hanker after fruit; to hanker after the diversions of the town.

hanker
To hanker after any thing; to have a longing after or for it. ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
to hanker
To have an incessant wish.--Johnson. Dr. Johnson says this word is scarcely used except in familiar ...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.