English Explanatory Dictionary

hunk

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A large or dense piece of something.
  2. An attractive man, especially one who is muscular.
  3. A record of differences between almost contiguous portions of two files (or other sources of information). Differences that are widely separated by areas which are identical in both files would not be part of a single hunk. Differences that are separated by small regions which are identical in both files may comprise a single hunk. Patches are made up of hunks.
  4. A honyock.
noun
  1. A goal or base in children's games.

Pronunciation

/hʌŋk/ En-au-hunk.ogg

Word forms

hunk hunks

Etymology

Probably borrowed from West Flemish hunke (“hunk; chunk”), of obscure origin. Probably from an earlier *humke, *humpke, a diminutive related to Dutch homp (“hunk; lump”), English hump, equivalent to hump + -kin. The sense of an attractive man is recorded in Australian slang in 1941, in jive talk in 1945.

Synonyms

chunk lump bit chip clip crumb crumbling cutting flake fleak fragment hunk mammock ort piece piecemeal portion scrap scraplet slice snead snippet steck beefcake stud bona omi Chad chicken chick magnet dimber cove dreamboat himbo lady-killer man-meat pretty boy rizzler spunk stud muffin superhunk twink hick yokel bogger bogtrotter boor bucolic bydlo culchie carl churl corncob cornhusker country bumpkin country cousin clodhopper dubbo joskin hayseed hob hobnail

Related words

bohunk

Derived words

hunkish hunk of junk hunksome hunkvertising hunky superhunk twunk
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