Chunkier vs Hunkier - What's the difference?
chunkier | hunkier |
(chunky)
having chunks
(euphemistic, of a person) fat
(hunky)
(slang) Exhibiting strong, masculine beauty.
Shaped like a hunk, or piece; chunky.
(North America, slang, ethnic slur) A person of Hungarian or Slavic, especially Ruthenian, descent.
*2009 , Victor Bockris, Warhol: The Biography ,
*:Like blacks, who were the only ethnic group below them on the social scale, Eastern Europeans, contemptuously labelled ‘hunkies ’, were dismissed as incapable and untrustworthy.
As adjectives the difference between chunkier and hunkier
is that chunkier is comparative of chunky while hunkier is comparative of hunky.chunkier
English
Adjective
(head)chunky
English
Etymology 1
chunk + -yAdjective
(en-adj)- I ate a chunky bar of chocolate.
- I prefer chunky blonde girls to skinny brunettes.
Synonyms
* (overweight) portly, rotund, obese, cankle, huskyEtymology 2
See chunkey.hunkier
English
Adjective
(head)hunky
English
Etymology 1
Probably (etyl) hunke, 19th century.Adjective
(er)Etymology 2
From the older (hunk), probably alteration of (Hungarian). Compare (bohunk).Alternative forms
* hunkie * hunkeyNoun
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