Punkier vs Hunkier - What's the difference?
punkier | hunkier |
(punky)
(Geology) Of or pertaining to punk (touchwood) - soft or rotted.
Of or pertaining to the punk subculture.
(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 punkier and hunkier
is that punkier is comparative of punky while hunkier is comparative of hunky.punkier
English
Adjective
(head)punky
English
Adjective
(er)Noun
(punkies)hunkier
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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