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hunky

adj
/ˈhʌŋ.ki/CA/ˈhɐŋ.ki/

Etymology

From the older *hunk, probably alteration of Hungarian + -ie/-y. Compare bohunk and honky / honkey.

  1. borrowed from hunke
  2. suffixed as hunky — “hunk + y”

Definitions

  1. Exhibiting strong, masculine beauty.

  2. Shaped like a hunk, or piece

    Shaped like a hunk, or piece; chunky.

  3. All right

    All right; in good condition.

  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. even

      even; square; on equal footing with.

      • […] he dropped like a brick into the firing line and began to shoot; began to get "hunky" with all those people who had been plugging at him.

    2. A Hungarian or other eastern European, e.g. a Romanian or a Slav. (Sometimes applied…

      A Hungarian or other eastern European, e.g. a Romanian or a Slav. (Sometimes applied (like honky) to any white person.)

      • "All hunkies and wops, and no wonder there was seven hundred and fifty of them."
      • He made hunkies and cut ice-cream sandwiches.
      • The night before I had let a hunky called Big John have a dollar's worth of chips in the poker game […]

    3. Alternative letter-case form of hunky (“Hungarian, eastern European”).

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Derived

hunkily, hunkiness, hunky-dory, hunky punk

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