hunk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hʌŋk/
rhymes: -ʌŋk
Forms: form: hunks
Etymology: Probably borrowed from West Flemish hunke (“hunk; chunk”), of obscure origin. Probably from an earlier *humke, *humpke, a diminutive related to Dutch homp (“hunk; lump”), English hump, equivalent to hump + -kin. The sense of an attractive man is recorded in Australian slang in 1941, in jive talk in 1945.
Senses: examples: text: a hunk of metal
text: "Jim, this is nice," I says. "I wouldn't want to be nowhere else but here. Pass me along another hunk of fish and some hot corn-bread."
ref: 1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter IX, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC:
text: A cowherd was sitting by the roadside eating this food, and as he was one of those pudding-faced, basin-clipped, decent fellows, he cut off two medium great hunks of bread and cheese for them.
ref: 1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 39:
synonyms: word: chunk
word: lump
word: bit
word: chip
word: chunk
word: clip
word: crumb
word: crumbling
word: cutting
word: flake
word: fleak
word: fragment
word: hunk
word: lump
word: mammock
word: ort
word: piece
word: piecemeal
word: portion
word: scrap
word: scraplet
word: slice
word: snead
word: snippet
word: steck
glosses: A large or dense piece of something.
examples: text: The unfortunate thing about calling the season seven finale “The Dragon And The Wolf” is you can’t even reference it by name without picturing Daenerys Targaryen’s long-awaited hook-up with Jon Snow, her strapping hunk of an ally and also her nephew.
ref: 2017 August 27, Brandon Nowalk, “Game Of Thrones slows down for the longest, and best, episode of the season (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club:
text: Diana’s most recent romantic adventure at that time was with the sturdy hunk Will Carling, captain of the England rugby team, whom she had met in 1995 working out at the Chelsea Harbor Club gym.
ref: April 5 2022, Tina Brown, “How Princess Diana’s Dance With the Media Impacted William and Harry”, in Vanity Fair:
synonyms: word: beefcake
word: stud
word: beefcake
word: bona omi
word: chicken
word: chick magnet
word: dimber cove
word: dreamboat
word: himbo
word: hunk
word: lady-killer
word: man-meat
word: pretty boy
word: rizzler
word: spunk
word: stud
word: stud muffin
word: superhunk
word: twink
glosses: An attractive man, especially one who is muscular.
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glosses: A record of differences between almost contiguous portions of two files (or other sources of information). Differences that are widely separated by areas which are identical in both files would not be part of a single hunk. Differences that are separated by small regions which are identical in both files may comprise a single hunk. Patches are made up of hunks.
examples: text: "You ain't callin' me a country hunk, are you?" "Hell, naw!" Louie backed away and grinned.
ref: 1941, William Woodrow Chamberlain, Leaf Gold, page 76:
synonyms: word: hick
word: yokel
word: bogger
word: bogtrotter
word: boor
word: bucolic
word: bydlo
word: culchie
word: carl
word: churl
word: corncob
word: cornhusker
word: country bumpkin
word: country cousin
word: clodhopper
word: dubbo
word: joskin
word: hayseed
word: hillbilly
word: hick
word: hob
word: hobnail
word: hog-rubber
word: honyock
word: hunk
word: lob
word: promdi
word: provincial
word: redneck
word: rube
word: rustic
word: woolly back
word: yokel
glosses: A honyock.
Derived terms: hunkish
hunk of junk
hunksome
hunkvertising
hunky
superhunk
twunk
Related terms: bohunk