Funk vs Hunk - What's the difference?
funk | hunk |
(countable) mental depression
(uncountable) A state of fear or panic, especially cowardly
* Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
(countable) Foul or unpleasant smell, especially body odour.
(rft-sense) (uncountable) Music that combines traditional forms of black music (as blues, gospel, or soul) and is characterized by a strong backbeat.
To emit an offensive smell; to stink.
To envelop with an offensive smell or smoke.
A large or dense piece of something.
* 1884 : (Mark Twain), (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn), Chapter IX
(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.
As nouns the difference between funk and hunk
is that funk is spark while hunk is a large or dense piece of something.As a verb funk
is to shrink from, or avoid something because of fear.funk
English
(wikipedia funk)Etymology 1
From (etyl) funke, . More at (l).Etymology 2
1743, Scottish and Northern English dialectal word, originally a verb meaning "to panic, fail due to panic". Perhaps from or cognate with obsolete (etyl) . More at (l).Noun
- [The helmsman] steered with no end of a swagger while you were by; but if he lost sight of you, he became instantly the prey of an abject funk
Etymology 3
1620, from (etyl) dialectal (Norman) funquer, . More at (l).Noun
Derived terms
* electrofunk * funkyVerb
(en verb)- (King)
hunk
English
Noun
(en noun)- a hunk of metal
- "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."