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verb-intransitive. To squat close to the ground; crouch. Usually used with down: hunkered down to avoid the icy wind.

verb-intransitive. To take shelter, settle in, or hide out. Usually used with down: hunkered down in the cabin during the blizzard.

verb-intransitive. To hold stubbornly to a position. Usually used with down: "As the White House hunkered down, G.O.P. congressional unity started crumbling” ( Time).

n. The haunches.

v. To crouch or squat close to the ground.

n. A political conservative.

n. Originally, a nickname for a member of the conservative section of the Democratic party in New York; hence, one opposed to progress in general; a fogy.

To stoop with the body resting upon the calves of the legs; squat.

n. In American politics, a conservative; one who opposes innovation or change; a fogy: first applied in the State of New York as a name to the conservative section of the Democratic party who opposed the Barnburners or radical section, about 1845. Also used adjectively.

v. sit on one's heels

"The entire country, it seems, is in hunker-down mode."

hunkers   

sit    sit down   

hunkers   

hunkers    hunker down   

fogy    conservative    squat    crouch   

Dunker    Junker    bunker    clunker    dunker    junker    plunker    spelunker    younker