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Hunky vs Junkie - What's the difference?

hunky | junkie |

As nouns the difference between hunky and junkie

is that hunky is a person of Hungarian or Slavic, especially Ruthenian, descent while junkie is a narcotics addict, especially referring to heroin users.

As an adjective hunky

is exhibiting strong, masculine beauty.

hunky

English

Etymology 1

Probably (etyl) hunke, 19th century.

Adjective

(er)
  • (slang) Exhibiting strong, masculine beauty.
  • Shaped like a hunk, or piece; chunky.
    • Related terms
    * hunk

    Etymology 2

    From the older (hunk), probably alteration of (Hungarian). Compare (bohunk).

    Alternative forms

    * hunkie * hunkey

    Noun

    (hunkies)
  • (North America, slang, ethnic slur) A person of Hungarian or Slavic, especially Ruthenian, descent.
  • *2009 , Victor Bockris, Warhol: The Biography , page 20
  • *: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.

    • References

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    junkie

    English

    Alternative forms

    * junky

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (slang, offensive, pejorative) A narcotics addict, especially referring to heroin users.
  • (by extension) An enthusiast of something.
    • English people are travel junkies , but Americans hardly ever leave their state.
    My uncle is a classic car junkie .

    Quotations

    * 1982: (song) by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five *: Rats in the front room, roaches in the back. Junkies in the alley with a baseball bat.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * adrenaline junkie

    See also

    * drug addict