Hunky
adj, noun, slang ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
- 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 Alternative letter-case form of hunky (“Hungarian, eastern European”). alt-of
- 1 Exhibiting strong, masculine beauty. informal
- 2 Shaped like a hunk, or piece; chunky.
- 3 All right; in good condition. US, slang
- 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."
Example
More examples"In the night of the 9th of November of 2021, as I entered the cafe to get my iced green tea, a hunky man sat at a table, as he fiddled with his laptop. As I sat at a table by the window, Michael the Guǎngzhōu Man entered and ordered his coffee. We sat together talking. He said that he was flying off tomorrow to visit China for six months. We talked about Thailand, a favourite topic. The food is excellent there. Thai and Vietnamese women have nice personalities, I emphasized. On parting, he gave me a cup of instant noodles. On my way home, I saw Rod my white neighbour. He said that he just retired from his water recycling job. He needs a hobby, we both agreed. I emphasized that the Web has many hobby opportunities."
Etymology
From hunk + -y.
From the older *hunk, probably alteration of Hungarian + -ie/-y. Compare bohunk and honky / honkey.
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