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Hunk vs Hump - What's the difference?

hunk | hump |

As a noun hunk

is a large or dense piece of something.

As a proper noun hump is

the himalayas, as the challenge for the supply route between india and china.

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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    hump

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia hump) (en noun)
  • A mound of earth.
  • A rounded mass, especially a fleshy mass such as on a camel.
  • A speed hump.
  • (rft-sense) A deformity in humans caused by abnormal curvature of the upper spine.
  • (slang) An act of sexual intercourse.
  • (British, slang) A bad mood.
  • get the hump''', have the '''hump''', take the '''hump .
  • (slang) A painfully boorish person.
  • That guy is such a hump !

    Synonyms

    * (abnormal deformity of the spine) gibbous, humpback, hunch, hunchback

    See also

    * over the hump * hump day * speed hump

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To bend something into a hump.
  • (slang) To carry something, especially with some exertion.
  • (slang) To carry, especially with some exertion.
  • (intransitive) To dry-hump.
  • (slang) To have sex with.
  • (slang) To have sex.
  • Derived terms

    * dry-hump