Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A disagreeable and often miserly person.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A covetous, sordid man; a miser; a niggard.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A covetous, sordid man; a miser; a niggard.
Etymologies
- Inflected forms. (Wiktionary)
- Origin unknown. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Love your throw caution to the wind attitude when it comes to being "bad" -- we do the same when it comes to indulging in hunks o'meat, go for the gusto with proper potatoes and roquefort.”
Recipes for Tuscan-style Grilled Steak with Roquefort-Rosemary Butter & Oven-Roasted Potatoes
“Fall upon the Ogre and hew him in hunks with your scymitars!”
“Such a bulky connection also tends to pick up weed hunks from the water, but if you're in a hurry, it's a great quick fix-even if it's not the way you're "supposed" to do it.”
“It pretty much follows the same formula – the French government’s gone all wrong and it takes two scrappy hunks from the wrong side of the tracks to flex some sense into it.”
“The clothes had rotted and the flesh fell away in hunks.”
“To stretch the calorie-heavy cheese, we shred it rather than carve it out in hunks.”
“Leave the "hunks" stuff to People magazine and tell us what really matters in this country.”
“And so they actively encouraged their sexual appetites, seeking out the "hunks," in order to keep themselves in the game of what once, long ago, was called courtship and has now degenerated into the alienating culture of "hooking up.”
“However, I haven't seen any 'hunks' yet and i seriously doubt I will see any in nursing!”
“I was impressed, in first sitting down at the Keelers 'table, with a sense of my own ignorance as to the most familiar details of life, but soon learned to speak confidently of "hunks," and "fortune stew," and”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘hunks’.
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•Open List: Plural-Looking Singular N...
This came up on auroch, which is a misspelling of aurochs.
aurochs, series, corps, species, kudos, bitumen, caries, lens, crossroads, means, vertebra, scissors and 7 more...
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Moby-Dick
Interesting words and usages.
hypo, spile, hunks, grapnel, squitchy, skrimshander, monkey jacket, direful, grego, wrapall, dreadnaught, bosky and 158 more...
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The Confidence Man
Words to remember from Melville's "The Confidence Man"
chevalier, hawk, unalloyed, ex-officio, scruple, pertinacity, epithet, gilt, bedizen, embrasure, escritoire, squaw and 278 more...
Tweets
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Drogulus Seems like Melville took a liking to this word:
The miser, a lean old man, whose flesh seemed salted codfish, dry as combustibles; head, like one whittled by an idiot out of a knot; flat, bony mouth, nipped between buzzard nose and chin; expression, flitting between hunks and imbecile - now one, now the other - he made no response.
- Melville, The Confidence Man Sep 6, 2012
yarb What of it, if some old hunks of a sea-captain orders me to get a broom and sweep down the decks?
- Melville, Moby Dick, ch. 1 Jul 23, 2008