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Hunk vs Dollop - What's the difference?

hunk | dollop |

As nouns the difference between hunk and dollop

is that hunk is a large or dense piece of something while dollop is a lump, scoop or considerable quantity of something.

As a verb dollop is

to apply haphazardly in generous lumps or scoops.

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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    dollop

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a lump, scoop or considerable quantity of something.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To apply haphazardly in generous lumps or scoops.
    • She dolloped a generous quantity of mustard on her hot dog.
  • To drip in a viscous form
  • * 2006 , John Patrick, Secret Passions
    • The guard bounced his cock up, and the cock-snot dolloped onto the floor. Without instruction, Mark lowered his head beneath the towering statue and licked the creamy blob of lubrication up.