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Definition: Hunk |
HunkNoun1. 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: HunkSynonym: lump (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Beauty | Beauty; hunk. |
Sexuality | Sex symbol, sex goddess; stud, hunk. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Hunk |
| English words defined with "hunk": lump. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "hunk": aliasing bug ♦ stale pointer bug. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "hunk": Hunky. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
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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Theater & Movies | |||
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| Thumbnail | Description & 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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| 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. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | And he bit out another hunk of rabbit |
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| Speaker | Phrase(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. | |
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 96.92% | 63 | 42,364 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.08% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 65 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
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. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency 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. | |||
| 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. | ||
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) | |
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"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). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "hunk" (pronounced hu"ngk) |
| 3 | -u" ng k | bunk, 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. | ||
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. | |
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