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hunk

noun
/hʌŋk/UK

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.

  1. borrowed from hunke

Definitions

  1. A large or dense piece of something.

    • a hunk of metal
    • "Jim, this is nice," I says. "I wouldn't want to be nowhere else but here. Pass me along another hunk of fish and some hot corn-bread."
    • A cowherd was sitting by the roadside eating this food, and as he was one of those pudding-faced, basin-clipped, decent fellows, he cut off two medium great hunks of bread and cheese for them.

  2. An attractive man, especially one who is muscular.

    • Diana’s most recent romantic adventure at that time was with the sturdy hunk Will Carling, captain of the England rugby team, whom she had met in 1995 working out at the Chelsea Harbor Club gym.

  3. A record of differences between almost contiguous portions of two files (or other sources…

    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. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. A honyock.

      • "You ain't callin' me a country hunk, are you?" "Hell, naw!" Louie backed away and grinned.

    2. A goal or base in children's games.

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Derived

hunkish, hunk of junk, hunksome, hunkvertising, hunky, superhunk, twunk

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for hunk. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA