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In the phrase on ones hunkers in a squatting or crouching position haunches...
Barnburner
A member of the radical section of the Democratic party in New York about the middle of the 19th century which was hostile to extension of slavery public debts corporate privileges etc and supported Van Buren against Cass for president in 1848 opposed to Hunker...
Hunker
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...
Hunker down
to crouch or squat to sit on ones haunches...
Hunkerism
Excessive conservatism hostility to progress...
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