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Hunk vs Morsel - What's the difference?

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Hunk is a related term of morsel.


As nouns the difference between hunk and morsel

is that hunk is a large or dense piece of something while morsel is a small fragment or share of something, commonly applied to food.

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

    * *

    morsel

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A small fragment or share of something, commonly applied to food.
  • A very small amount.
  • * 2008 , Pamela Griffin, New York Brides , Barbour Publishing Inc. (2008), ISBN 9781597899840, page 70:
    • Didn't even a morsel of decency remain in his brother?

    Synonyms

    * See also .

    Derived terms

    * morselize, morselization

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