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Junky vs Hunky - What's the difference?

junky | hunky |

As adjectives the difference between junky and hunky

is that junky is resembling or characteristic of junk; cheap, worthless, or of low quality while hunky is exhibiting strong, masculine beauty.

As nouns the difference between junky and hunky

is that junky is an alternative spelling of lang=en while hunky is a person of Hungarian or Slavic, especially Ruthenian, descent.

junky

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Resembling or characteristic of junk; cheap, worthless, or of low quality.

    • Noun

    (junkies)
  • (slang, pejorative)

    • 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.

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