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hunk

UK/hʌŋk/ US/ˈhʌŋk/ fairly common informal slang us

noun

1.

a well-built sexually attractive man

2.

a large piece of something without definite shape

  • “a hunk of bread”
  • “a lump of coal”
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Origin

Probably borrowed from West Flemish hunke (“hunk; chunk”), of obscure origin. Probably from an earlier *humke, *humpke, a diminutive related to Dutch homp (“hunk; lump”), English hump, equivalent to hump + -kin. The sense of an attractive man is recorded in Australian slang in 1941, in jive talk in 1945.

Phrases

  • hunk of junk

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