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say it: HUHNG-kur
hunker is a verb meaning "sit on one's heels". It carries one recorded sense.
sit on one's heels
“In some cultures, the women give birth while squatting”
“The children hunkered down to protect themselves from the sandstorm”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for hunker come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.