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Meanings
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a large thick piece; a sexually attractive man
He tore off a hunk of bread and dipped it in the stew.
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Etymology
From dialectal or Flemish hunke ('lump, hunk'); first attested in the early 19th century. The slang sense 'attractive man' is mid-20th-century American.
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