hunky
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 15
- Words With Friends
- 15
- Letters
- 5
/ˈhʌŋ.ki/
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/ˈhʌŋ.ki/ · /ˈhɐŋ.ki/ · /ˈhʊŋ.ki/
Definition of hunky
6 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
adj
- (informal)Exhibiting strong, masculine beauty.
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adj
- (informal)Exhibiting strong, masculine beauty.
- Shaped like a hunk, or piece; chunky.
- (US, slang)All right; in good condition.
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(US, slang)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.”
noun
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(US, ethnic, slang, slur, uncommon)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 […]”
“He said, "I'm going to buy this building and turn this into a Nigger bar. I'm going to bar all you fucking hunkies."”
“On the negative side, a hunky was culturally schizophrenic, an inhabitant of crowded and ill-kept rooms and whose clothing was in poor taste, an alcoholic, intrinsically dull and stupid, an offspring of domineering parents, […]”
- (alt-of)Alternative letter-case form of hunky (“Hungarian, eastern European”).
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From hunk + -y.
Words you can make from hunky
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