Hunk vs Hulk - What's the difference?
hunk | hulk |
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.
a non-functional, but floating ship, usually stripped of rigging and equipment, and often put to other uses such as storage or accommodation.
(archaic) any large ship that is difficult to maneuver
A big (and possibly clumsy) person
(bodybuilding): An excessively muscled person
As nouns the difference between hunk and hulk
is that hunk is a large or dense piece of something while hulk is a non-functional, but floating ship, usually stripped of rigging and equipment, and often put to other uses such as storage or accommodation.As a verb hulk is
to remove the entrails of; to disembowel.As a proper noun Hulk is
a fictional comic-book character who gains superhuman strength when he becomes angry.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."
