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Hunky vs Robust - What's the difference?

hunky | robust |

Robust is a synonym of hunky.



As adjectives the difference between hunky and robust

is that hunky is exhibiting strong, masculine beauty while robust is evincing strength; indicating vigorous health; strong; sinewy; muscular; vigorous; sound; as, a robust body; robust youth; robust health.

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)
  • (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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    robust

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Evincing strength; indicating vigorous health; strong; sinewy; muscular; vigorous; sound; as, a robust body; robust youth; robust health.
    • He was a robust man of six feet four.
  • * Anthony Trollope (1815-1882)
    • She was stronger, larger, more robust physically than he had hitherto conceived.
  • Violent; rough; rude.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=October 1 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Everton 0 - 2 Liverpool , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=As a frenetic opening continued, Cahill - whose robust approach had already prompted Jamie Carragher to register his displeasure to Atkinson - rose above the Liverpool defence to force keeper Pepe Reina into an athletic tip over the top.}}
  • Requiring strength or vigor; as, robust employment.
  • Sensible (of intellect etc.); straightforward, not given to or confused by uncertainty or subtlety;
  • (systems engineering) Designed or evolved in such a way as to be resistant to total failure despite partial damage.
  • (software engineering) Resistant or impervious to failure regardless of user input or unexpected conditions.
  • (statistics) Not greatly influenced by errors in assumptions about the distribution of sample errors.

    • Usage notes

    * "More" and "most robust" are much more common than the forms ending in "-er" or "-est".

    Derived terms

    * robustness

    See also

    * (Robust statistics)

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