hunk

nounnounattested in dialogue

United Kingdom//hʌŋk//

A large or dense piece of something.

noun

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
informalAn attractive man, especially one who is muscular.
The unfortunate thing about calling the season seven finale “The Dragon And The Wolf” is you can’t even reference it by name without picturing Daenerys Targaryen’s long-awaited hook-up with Jon Snow, her strapping hunk of an ally and also her nephew.
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 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
slangA honyock.
"You ain't callin' me a country hunk, are you?" "Hell, naw!" Louie backed away and grinned.
5
A material object considered purely as extended stuff without identity criteria.

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.

noun

1
A goal or base in children's games.

Etymology

From Dutch honk (“the base in a game”).

Forms

plural: hunks

Hungary · A country in Central Europe. Capital and largest city:…hunger · A need or compelling desire for food.hungry · Affected by hunger; having the physical need for food.

hunk · A large or dense piece of something.

hunt · To find or search for an animal in the wild with the…Hunt · An English surname originating as an occupation for a hunter…hunted · Being the subject of a hunt.

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