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Hunkey vs Chunkey - What's the difference?

hunkey | chunkey |

As nouns the difference between hunkey and chunkey

is that hunkey is (us|pejorative) a hungarian (or, more generally, eastern european) labourer while chunkey is a sport or game played by the cherokee and other native americans in the carolinas, which involved rolling stone disks across the ground and throwing spears at them in an attempt to place the spear as close to the stopped stone as possible.

hunkey

English

Alternative forms

*hunky

Noun

(en noun)
  • (US, pejorative) A Hungarian (or, more generally, eastern European) labourer.
  • (US) A person of Hungarian or Yugoslav extraction.

    • Related terms

    *honky, honkey

    References

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    chunkey

    English

    (wikipedia chunkey)

    Alternative forms

    * chenco * chungke * chunky * tchungkee, tchung-kee

    Noun

    (-)
  • A sport or game played by the Cherokee and other Native Americans in the Carolinas, which involved rolling stone disks across the ground and throwing spears at them in an attempt to place the spear as close to the stopped stone as possible.