Hunky vs Hulky - What's the difference?
hunky | hulky |
(slang) Exhibiting strong, masculine beauty.
Shaped like a hunk, or piece; chunky.
(North America, slang, ethnic slur) A person of Hungarian or Slavic, especially Ruthenian, descent.
*2009 , Victor Bockris, Warhol: The Biography ,
*:Like blacks, who were the only ethnic group below them on the social scale, Eastern Europeans, contemptuously labelled ‘hunkies ’, were dismissed as incapable and untrustworthy.
Large; hulking.
* {{quote-news, year=2009, date=March 22, author=Susanna Hamner, title=Harley, You’re Not Getting Any Younger, work=New York Times
, passage=After riding high for two decades, the company that makes the hulky bikes that devoted riders affectionately call Hogs is sputtering. }}
As adjectives the difference between hunky and hulky
is that hunky is exhibiting strong, masculine beauty while hulky is large; hulking.As a noun hunky
is a person of Hungarian or Slavic, especially Ruthenian, descent.hunky
English
Etymology 1
Probably (etyl) hunke, 19th century.Adjective
(er)Etymology 2
From the older (hunk), probably alteration of (Hungarian). Compare (bohunk).Alternative forms
* hunkie * hunkeyNoun
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References
*hulky
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Adjective
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