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Hink vs Hunk - What's the difference?

hink | hunk |

As nouns the difference between hink and hunk

is that hink is (obsolete) a reaping hook while hunk is a large or dense piece of something.

hink

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) A reaping hook.
    • (Knight)
    (Webster 1913) ----

    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

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