Hunky vs Hunkiness - What's the difference?
hunky | hunkiness |
(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.
As nouns the difference between hunky and hunkiness
is that hunky is (north america|slang|ethnic slur) a person of hungarian or slavic, especially ruthenian, descent while hunkiness is the state or condition of being hunky.As an adjective hunky
is (slang) 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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