Hunks vs Junks - What's the difference?
hunks | junks |
(slang, dated) A crotchety or surly person; also, a stingy man, a miser.
* 1851 , Herman Melville, :
As nouns the difference between hunks and junks
is that hunks is (slang|dated) a crotchety or surly person; also, a stingy man, a miser or hunks can be while junks is .As a verb junks is
(junk).hunks
English
Etymology 1
Origin unknown.Noun
(hunkses)- 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.
