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Hunk

Definition: Hunk

Hunk

Noun

1. A well-built sexually attractive man.

2. A large piece of something without definite shape; "a hunk of bread" or "a lump of coal".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "hunk" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1838. (references)

Note: Hunk \Hunk\, noun. [Compare to Hunch.]. (references)

 

Synonym: Hunk

Synonym: lump (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Hunk

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Beauty

Beauty; hunk.

Sexuality

Sex symbol, sex goddess; stud, hunk.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Hunk

English words defined with "hunk": lump. (references)
Specialty definitions using "hunk": aliasing bugstale pointer bug. (references)
Etymologies containing "hunk": Hunky. (references)

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Modern Usage: Hunk

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Looked like a hunk of rope (On the Waterfront; writing credit: Budd Schulberg.)

Luau! If you're hungry for a hunk of fat and juicy meat (The Lion King; writing credit: Irene Mecchi; Jonathan Roberts)

He's already asked me if Rudy is an oily variety beau hunk. (Sixteen Candles; writing credit: John Hughes)

You know I haven't been this choked up since I got a hunk of moussaka caught in my throat (Hercules; writing credit: Ron Clements; Barry Johnson)

Oh Hunk, you just won't listen, that's all. (The Wizard of Oz; writing credit: L. Frank Baum; Noel Langley)

Lyrics

I'm just a hunk, a hunk of burning love (Burning Love; performing artist: Elvis Presley)

Just a hunk, a hunk of burning love (Burning Love; performing artist: Elvis Presley)

Movie/TV Titles

Hunk (1987)

The Mill Hunk Herald (1980)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Hunk

DomainTitle

Books

  • Hunk Machine (Salt & Pepper Chronicles, Number 2) (reference)

  • Hunk of the Month (Temptation , No 683) (reference)

  • Last Year's Hunk (Silhouette Desire, No 274) (reference)

  • The Hunk & the Virgin (Harlequin American Romance, 770) (reference)

  • The Reluctant Hunk (Harlequin Temptation, No 523) (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Hunk

Illustrations:
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Computer Images:
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Photo Album: Hunk

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

If dreams came true. Say!! Yah big stiff! Yah big four flusher! Yah big hunk of ... Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Sounds Captioned with "Hunk".

PlayCaption
Ante; plastic; clink; pile; piling; accumulation; aggregate; aggregation; amassment; assemblage; bank; barrel; buildup; chunk; collection; conglomeration; gob; great deal; hill; hoard; hunk; jumble; lump; mass; mound; oodles; pack; peck; pyramid; quantity.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Use in Literature: Hunk

TitleAuthorQuote

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

And he bit out another hunk of rabbit

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Spoken Usage: Hunk

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Art Linkletter

I love Uncle Sam, but I didn't want him to take all my money. So, I founded an oil well drilling. You can write off all of the intangible drilling, which is a big hunk of the money that goes against your income.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Hunk

"Hunk" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 96.92% of the time. "Hunk" is used about 65 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)96.92%6342,364
Noun (proper)3.08%2245,945
                    Total100.00%65N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Hunk

Expression using "hunk": hunk of bread. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Containing "hunk": Coal-hunk-peter.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Hunk

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

hunk

3,212

hung hunk

57

muscle hunk

871

muscle hunk gallery

55

gay hunk

364

hunk picture

52

male hunk

262

hunky hunk

51

hunk man

241

soap opera hunk

50

nude hunk

217

hunk smoking

50

hot hunk

216

asian hunk

48

hairy hunk

175

hunk video

48

naked hunk

174

shrine to the soap hunk

47

soap hunk

131

muscular hunk

45

black hunk

128

hunk underwear

45

shirtless hunk

124

latin hunk

43

hunk gallery

110

hunk pic

42

sexy hunk

106

young hunk

39

hunk hunter

79

handsome hunk

38

hunk hunter haunt

67

teen hunk

35

college hunk

64

horny hunk

35

beach hunk

62

latino hunk

33

hunk in trunks

61

free nude hunk

33

icy hot hunk

60

free hunk

31
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Hunk

Language Translations for "hunk"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

thelë (chunk, clove, cut, lobule, segment, share, slice), pidhar (cunt-chaser, stud), kurvar (cunt-chaser, stud, whoremonger), fetë e trashë (hunch), copë (chunk, excerpt, fraction, fragment, fritter, knob, loaf, lump, mammock, morsel, nub, partition, piece, rag, scrap, scrap metal, section, segment, shiver, shred, sliver, snip, snippet, splint, tatter). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏قطعة كبيرة (lump). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

голямо парче (hunch, junk). (various references)

   

Czech

  

velký kus (whopper), vazba (arrest, binding, committal, contexture, custody, detention, government, linkage, ward, weave), skýva (chunk), kus chlapa. (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

کلوخه (Clog, Gob, Lump), تکه بزرگ (Chump). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

viipale (rasher, slice). (various references)

   

French

  

gros morceau, bloc (hunch), baiseur. (various references)

   

German

  

Brocken (boulder, boulders, chunk, dollop, gobbet, gobbets, hunks, lump, scrap, snatch, whopper). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

μέγα τεμάχιο, μεγάλο κομμάτι (chunk). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

'וש (block, body, bulk, clod, lump, mass), תח '"ול. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

púp (boss, crump back, hump, hunch, hunchback, lump, shoulder, snub), nagy darab (chunk, gobbet, hunch). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

bongkahan. (various references)

   

Italian

  

pezzo (bit, chunk, gobbets, length, lump, part, piece, play, portion, ration, scrap, section, slab, slice, smack, smacker, snap, snatch, stump), grosso pezzo (chunk). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

unkhay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

pedao grande, naco (chunk, lump, piece). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

halcã (chunk, hunch, joint), futãu (cunt-chaser, stud), bucatã (article, bar, brick, clod, cut, dollop, fragment, junk, length, morsel, nub, part, Pat, patch, piece, ribbon, shred, slice, snack, steak, tablet). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

горб (humpback), ломоть (chum, chunk, slab). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

komadina (hunch), komadeška (hunch). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

tío bueno, pedazo (bit, Cantel, chunk, end, lieu, lump, morsel, nub, piece, spare part, wedge), jodontón (cunt-chaser, oversexed, Randy, stud), cachas. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

tjockt stycke (chunk), stort stycke (hunch), sexig kille. (various references)

   

Thai

  

ก้อนใหญ่. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

iri parça, iri dilim. (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

kerз (chunk). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

кусень (chunk). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

miếng to, khúc to (hunch). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Hunk

Derivations

Words beginning with "hunk": hunker, hunkered, hunkering, hunkers, hunkier, hunkies, hunkiest, hunks, hunky. (additional references)

Words ending with "hunk": bohunk, chunk, thunk. (additional references)

Words containing "hunk": bohunks, chunked, chunkier, chunkiest, chunkily, chunking, chunks, chunky, thunked, thunking, thunks. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Hunk" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aunk, hanc, henc, henk, henki, heun, Hinc, Hink, Hinku, honi, honki, huk, Humko, Huna, hunc, hund, Hune, hunh, huni, hunn, Hunne, hunny, hunz, huon, hurk, Hyuk, hyun, Phunky, thunk, uhn, unk, yunk, zunk. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Hunk"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "hunk" (pronounced hu"ngk)
3-u" ng kbunk, chunk, clunk, debunk, drunk, Dunk, flunk, funk, junk, monk, plunk, punk, shrunk, skunk, Spunk, stunk, sunk, trunk.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Hunk

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "h-k-n-u"

-1 letter: hun.

-2 letters: nu, uh, un.

 Words containing the letters "h-k-n-u"
 

+1 letter: chunk, hunks, hunky, thunk.

 

+2 letters: ankush, bohunk, chunks, chunky, hunker, kahuna, kuchen, punkah, shrunk, thunks, unhook, unhusk.

 

+3 letters: bohunks, chunked, hulking, hunkers, hunkier, hunkies, husking, kahunas, punkahs, punkish, thunked, unchoke, unhooks, unhusks, unthink.

 

+4 letters: ankushes, chipmunk, chucking, chunkier, chunkily, chunking, cornhusk, elkhound, gunkhole, hunkered, hunkiest, huskings, keypunch, krumhorn, lunkhead, munchkin, mutchkin, nunchaku, outthank, outthink, shrunken, shucking, shunpike, sunchoke, thankful, thumbkin, thunking, unchoked, unchokes, unhooked, unhusked, unkosher, unshaken, unshrunk, unthinks.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Sounds
9. Quotations: Fiction
10. Quotations: Spoken
11. Usage Frequency
12. Expressions
13. Expressions: Internet
14. Translations: Modern
15. Derivations
16. Rhymes
17. Anagrams
18. Bibliography


  

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