ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Hunky

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Pronunciation /ˈhʌŋ.ki/ · Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Hunky is an adjective meaning (informal) Exhibiting strong, masculine beauty.

Meaning

(informal) Exhibiting strong, masculine beauty.

More Meanings

  1. Shaped like a hunk, or piece; chunky.
  2. (US, slang) All right; in good condition.
  3. (US, slang) even; square; on equal footing with.
  4. (US, slang, now uncommon, ethnic slur) A Hungarian or other eastern European, e.g. a Romanian or a Slav. (Sometimes applied (like honky) to any white person.)

Example Sentences

He made hunkies and cut ice-cream sandwiches.
"All hunkies and wops, and no wonder there was seven hundred and fifty of them."
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."

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Related dictionary entries include dory, hunkish, humpy, well-thewed, manly, built.

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