US /hʌŋk/ UK /hʌŋk/
noun

Meanings

  1. 1
    noun

    a large thick piece; a sexually attractive man

    He tore off a hunk of bread and dipped it in the stew.

Thesaurus

Synonyms
1 noun · a large thick piece; a... chunklumpwedgeslabblockpiecestudbeefcake
Word family
Derived forms hunky

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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