Flump vs Hunk - What's the difference?
flump | hunk |
to move or fall heavily, or with a dull sound
to drop something heavily or with a dull sound
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 flump and hunk
is that flump is the dull sound so produced while hunk is a large or dense piece of something.As a verb flump
is to move or fall heavily, or with a dull sound.flump
English
Verb
(en verb)Synonyms
* plunk, thudReferences
* OED 2nd edition 1989 English onomatopoeiashunk
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."