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▪ I. hunk, n.1|hʌŋk|
[Known only since the 19th c., and not frequent in literature before 1850. It is identical in form and sense with West Flem. hunke (een hunke brood of vleesch a hunk of bread or meat; eene hunke aan den bedelaar geven to give a hunk to the beggar: De Bo Westvl. Idiotikon 1892). Franck would connect this with Du. honk, hunk2; but the connexion of sense is not obvious.]
1. a. A large piece cut off (e.g. from a loaf, cheese, etc.); a thick or clumsy piece, a lump; a hunch.
a1813A. Wilson Foresters Poet. Wks. (1846) 42 Hunks of bacon all around were spread. 1826Corresp. fr. Wiltshire in Hone Every-day Bk. II. 1117 Cottage children..munching their ‘hunks’ of bread, smeared with butter. 1841J. T. J. Hewlett Parish Clerk I. 94 Munching two enormous hunks..of cold meat and bread. 1861Sala Dutch Pict. xv. 232 A leg [of mutton] cut up in hunks and handed round. 1891Rashdall in Colleges Oxf. 156 It became usual for men to go to the buttery for a hunk of bread and a pot of beer.
b. A large man or woman.
[1823in Dialect Notes (1913) IV. 47 Hunk, bulk. A large body.] 1941Baker Dict. Austral. Slang 37 Hunk, a large man. 1945L. Shelly Jive Talk Dict. 13/1 Hunk, stalwart male. 1946B. Treadwell Big Book of Swing 124/2 Hunk, very masculine male. 1957J. Kerouac On Road (1958) 62, I looked at Lee Ann. She was a fetching hunk, a honey-colored creature.
2. (Sc. dial.) A sluttish, indolent woman; as a ‘nasty hunk’, a ‘lazy hunk’ (Jamieson 1825).[Possibly a distinct word; Jam. suggests connexion with hunker v.] Hence hunker, a cutter of hunks. (nonce-wd.)
1864Sala in Daily Tel. 27 Sept., The butchers..seem to have been taking lessons from the live-collop hunkers of Abyssinia.
Add:[1.] [b.] In modern use, spec. a sexually attractive, ruggedly handsome man. colloq. (orig. U.S.).
1966Current Slang (Univ. S. Dakota) I. 3/1 Hunk, very virile man.—College females, Midwest.—I'd rather date a hunk than a brain. 1969Ibid. IV. 10 Hunk, a very masculine fellow. 1979National Times (Austral.) 17 Nov. 72/4 She comes out with a bunch of young hunks who not only look heterosexual (ie, they don't flounce around the stage like some spastic old queens..) [etc.]. 1984Fair Lady (S. Afr.) 26 Dec. 11 Jumping on the hunk of the month bandwagon is photographer Herb Klein with a 1985 calendar that gives you a different man every month. 1989Mandy 28 Oct. 18 I'm not losing my chance with a hunk like Douglas, for any boring old vow.
▪ II. hunk, n.2 and a. U.S.
[a. Du. honk goal, home, in a game; of Frisian origin: cf. WFris. honcke, honck ‘house, place of refuge or safe abode’ (Japix); EFris. hunk ‘corner, nook, retreat, home in a game’ (Doornkaat-Koolman).]
A. n. (local, New York) In children's games: The goal, home, or den; as ‘to reach hunk’; ‘to be on hunk’, contr. ‘to be hunk’ (Cent. Dict.).
‘A word descended from the Dutch children, and much used by New York boys in their play’ (Bartlett 1860).
B. adj.
a. In a safe or good position or condition, all right.
1856N.Y. Tribune 30 Dec. (Bartlett), Now he felt himself all hunk, and wanted to get this enormous sum out of the city. 1860Bartlett Dict. Amer. (ed. 3) s.v., To be hunk or all hunk is to have reached the goal or place of meeting without being intercepted by one of the opposite party, to be all safe.
b. Colloq. phr. to get hunk (with): to get even (with). Also const. on.
1845Spirit of Times 24 May 146 Those who lost their money on Fashion had two or three chances to ‘get hunk’, especially on the last day. 1903A. H. Lewis Boss vii. 93 No, I don't blame Sheeny Joe... Still, while I don't blame him, it's up to us to get hunk an' even on th' play. 1949Boston Globe (Fiction Mag.) 12 June 2/4 Suppose I show you how to get hunk with the cheapskates? 1950in H. E. Goldin Dict. Amer. Underworld Lingo 79/1 That fink (informer) tried to get hunk on me for glomming (stealing) his broad (girl) by belching (informing) on me.
▪ III. hunk, n.3 N. Amer. slang.|hʌŋk|
Also hunkey, hunkie, hunky.
[Cf. bohunk.]
A nickname applied, usually disparagingly, to immigrants to the U.S.A. from east-central Europe. Also attrib. Cf. honky.
1896N.Y. Herald 13 Jan. 3/4 The average Pennsylvanian contemptuously refers to these immigrants as ‘Hikes’ and ‘Hunks’. The ‘Hikes’ are Italians and Sicilians. ‘Hunks’ is a corruption for Huns, but under this title the Pennsylvanian includes Hungarians, Lithuanians, Slavs, Poles, Magyars and Tyroleans. 1910Sat. Even. Post 3 Sept. 18/1 Almost every..Hunky or Dutchman who lands in New York has in his ‘kick’ or wallet, the written address of some boarding house. 1914Jackson & Hellyer Vocab. Criminal Slang 47 Hunkie, current in localities where North European laborers abound. A corruption of Hungarian, but employed to signify a Continental European who is unwashed and unnaturalized. 1928S. Lewis Man who knew Coolidge i. 53 Too many foreigners—fellows with Wop names and Hunky names. 1929Amer. Speech June 372 Hunkey, same as Bohunk. 1932[see goof v. 1 a]. 1934J. O'Hara Appointment in Samarra (1935) i. v. 83 The hunkeys, the schwackies..—regional names for non-Latin foreigners—probably were inside getting drunk. 1936Scrutiny V. 1/5 The twelve-hour day kept the myriads of ‘hunkies’ who toiled in Mellon mills out of brawls and brothels. 1939Archit. Rev. LXXXV. 219/2 It has to be close to the town because most of the workmen are foreign-born hunkies and do not readily adapt themselves to living conditions in Lyndora. 1962C. L. Barnhart in Householder & Saporta Probl. Lexicogr. 178 Greaser, guinea, hunky, Jap, kike. 1971Maclean's Mag. Oct. 78/1, I don't know if I should get mad if someone insults the Irish, or makes cracks about Polacks or Hunkies. |