hunky

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
15
Words With Friends
15
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/ˈhʌŋ.ki/
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/ˈhʌŋ.ki/ · /ˈhɐŋ.ki/ · /ˈhʊŋ.ki/

Definition of hunky

6 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (informal)Exhibiting strong, masculine beauty.
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adj

  1. (informal)Exhibiting strong, masculine beauty.
  2. Shaped like a hunk, or piece; chunky.
  3. (US, slang)All right; in good condition.
  4. (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

  1. (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, […]”
  2. (alt-of)Alternative letter-case form of hunky (“Hungarian, eastern European”).

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Etymology

From hunk + -y.

Words you can make from hunky

6 playable · top: HUNK (11 pts)

Best play hunk 11 points

3-letter words

2 words

2-letter words

3 words

Hooks

1 extension · 1 front

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