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Beefcake vs Hunk - What's the difference?

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Hunk is a synonym of beefcake.



As nouns the difference between beefcake and hunk

is that beefcake is used literally as cake and lang=en while hunk is a large or dense piece of something.

beefcake

English

(wikipedia beefcake)

Alternative forms

* beef-cake

Noun

(en noun)
  • (informal, uncountable) Imagery of one or more muscular, well-built men.
  • (informal, countable) Such a male, especially as seen as physically desirable.

    • Synonyms

    * (attractive man) lady-killer

    Related terms

    * beefy * cheesecake

    hunk

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A large or dense piece of something.
    • a hunk of metal
  • * 1884 : (Mark Twain), (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn), Chapter IX
    • "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."
  • (informal) A sexually attractive boy or man, especially one who is muscular.
  • (computing) 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.
  • (US, slang) A honyock.

    • Synonyms

    * (large or dense piece) chunk, lump, piece * (sexually attractive boy) beefcake

    Derived terms

    * hunky

    See also

    * bohunk

    References

    * *