hunk
Meanings
Plural: hunks
Noun
- a well-built sexually attractive man
- a large piece of something without definite shape
- "a hunk of bread"
- A large or dense piece of something.
- An attractive man, especially one who is muscular.
- 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.
- A honyock.
- A goal or base in children's games.
Origin / 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
beefcake, bit, bogger, bogtrotter, bona omi, boor, bucolic, bydlo, carl, chick magnet, chicken, chip, chunk, churl, clip, clodhopper, corncob, cornhusker, country bumpkin, country cousin, crumb, crumbling, culchie, cutting, dimber cove, dreamboat, dubbo, flake, fleak, fragment, hayseed, hick, hillbilly, himbo, hob, hobnail, hog-rubber, honyock, hunk, joskin, lady-killer, lob, lump, mammock, man-meat, ort, piece, piecemeal, portion, pretty boy, promdi, provincial, redneck, rizzler, rube, rustic, scrap, scraplet, slice, snead, snippet, spunk, steck, stud, stud muffin, superhunk, twink, woolly back, yokel
Scrabble Score: 11
hunk is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordhunk is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
hunk is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary