Junkiest vs Hunkiest - What's the difference?
junkiest | hunkiest |
(junky)
Resembling or characteristic of junk; cheap, worthless, or of low quality.
(slang, pejorative)
(hunky)
(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 adjectives the difference between junkiest and hunkiest
is that junkiest is superlative of junky while hunkiest is superlative of hunky.junkiest
English
Adjective
(head)junky
English
Adjective
(er)Noun
(junkies)hunkiest
English
Adjective
(head)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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