Hunk Common

Hunk has 4 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions

Noun

a well-built sexually attractive man

hunk

a large piece of something without definite shape

"a hunk of bread"

"a lump of coal"

hunk lump

A large or dense piece of something.

"The children threw their beanbag toward the hunk to score points in hopscotch."

A goal or base in children's games.

In plain English: A hunk is an attractive man with a strong, muscular build that people find very appealing to look at.

"The hunk of cheese was too big for me to eat by myself."

Example Sentences

"The hunk of cheese was too big for me to eat by myself." noun

"The hunk of cheese on his plate was too big to eat in one bite." noun

"She carried a heavy hunk of luggage up the stairs without help." noun

"After the storm, a large hunk of ice floated down the river." noun

Origin

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.

Rhyming Words

sunk bunk munk dunk lunk punk junk funk tunk gunk frunk plunk slunk drunk krunk flunk crunk stunk chunk thunk

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