Hunky vs Hunk - What's the difference?
hunky | hunk |
(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.
A large or dense piece of something.
* 1884 : (Mark Twain), (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn), Chapter IX
(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.
Hunk is a derived term of hunky.
Hunk is a related term of hunky.
As nouns the difference between hunky and hunk
is that hunky is a person of Hungarian or Slavic, especially Ruthenian, descent while hunk is a large or dense piece of something.As an adjective hunky
is exhibiting strong, masculine beauty.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
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English
Noun
(en noun)- a hunk of metal
- "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."