Hunks vs Honks - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between hunks and honks

is that hunks is a crotchety or surly person; also, a stingy man, a miser while honks is plural of lang=en.

third-person singular of honk.

Origin unknown.

(hunkses)

(slang, dated) A crotchety or surly person; also, a stingy man, a miser.

* 1851 , Herman Melville, :

Now, Bildad, I am sorry to say, had the reputation of being an incorrigible old hunks , and in his sea-going days, a bitter, hard task-master.

Inflected forms.

(head)

(head)

(head)

(honk)