hanker

verb

1. To crave, want or desire.

   “If you hanker for chocolate, you'll like this fudge recipe.”

   ““O ’tis true enough, faith. I cannot understand Farmer Boldwood being such a fool at his time of life as to ho and hanker after thik^([sic]) woman in the way ’a do, and she not care a bit about en.””

   ““Baked, they were tough; and even boiled, they warn’t things for a hungry man to hanker after.””

   “I objected. I don’t know whether it is that I am built wrong, but I never did seem to hanker after tombstones myself.”

   “[…] it made us heroes, and that was what Tom Sawyer had always been hankering to be.”