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hʌŋkhunk

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. hunknoun

    a well-built sexually attractive man

  2. hunk, lumpnoun

    a large piece of something without definite shape

    "a hunk of bread"; "a lump of coal"

GCIDE

  1. Hunknoun

    a sexually attractive, well-built man.

Wiktionary

  1. hunknoun

    A large or dense piece of something.

    a hunk of metal

  2. hunknoun

    A sexually attractive boy or man, especially one who is muscular.

  3. hunknoun

    A record of differences between almost contiguous portions of two files (or other sources of information). Differences that are widely separated by areas which are identical in both files would not be part of a single hunk. Differences that are separated by small regions which are identical in both files may comprise a single hunk. Patches are made up of hunks.

  4. hunknoun

    A honyock.

  5. Etymology: Probably hunke, 1813. The sense of an attractive man is recorded in Australian slang in 1941, in jive talk in 1945.

ChatGPT

  1. hunk

    A hunk generally refers to a large piece or portion of something. However, in informal terms, it is often used to describe an attractive and muscular man.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Hunknoun

    a large lump or piece; a hunch; as, a hunk of bread

  2. Etymology: [Cf. Hunch.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Hunk

    the same as Hunch.

  2. Hunk

    hungk, n. (U.S.) goal or base in boys' games.—n. Hunk′er, a conservative.—adj. Hunk′y, in good position. [Dut. honk.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of hunk in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of hunk in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

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