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
- Shaped like a hunk, or piece; chunky.
- (US, slang) All right; in good condition.
- (US, slang) even; square; on equal footing with.
- (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."
Word Forms
- hunkier
- hunkiest
- hunkies
- hunkie
- hunkey
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include dory, hunkish, humpy, well-thewed, manly, built.
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