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Hunky

//ˈhʌŋ.ki// adj, noun, slang

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Exhibiting strong, masculine beauty. informal
  2. 2
    Shaped like a hunk, or piece; chunky.
  3. 3
    All right; in good condition. US, slang
  4. 4
    even; square; on equal footing with. US, slang

    "[…] he dropped like a brick into the firing line and began to shoot; began to get "hunky" with all those people who had been plugging at him."

Noun
  1. 1
    A Hungarian or other eastern European, e.g. a Romanian or a Slav. (Sometimes applied (like honky) to any white person.) US, ethnic, slang, slur, uncommon

    ""All hunkies and wops, and no wonder there was seven hundred and fifty of them.""

  2. 2
    Alternative letter-case form of hunky (“Hungarian, eastern European”). alt-of

Etymology

Etymology 1

From hunk + -y.

Etymology 2

From the older *hunk, probably alteration of Hungarian + -ie/-y. Compare bohunk and honky / honkey.

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