hunk
AI In plain words
Writing a short explanation…
Written by a house AI from the entry below, in your language. The entry itself is the source.
hunk¹
- /hʌŋk/ UK, US
Rhymes with -ʌŋk
Where it comes from
Probably borrowed from West Flemish hunke (“hunk; chunk”), of obscure origin. Probably from an earlier *humke, *humpke, a diminutive related to Dutch homp (“hunk; lump”), English hump, equivalent to hump + -kin. The sense of an attractive man is recorded in Australian slang in 1941, in jive talk in 1945.
noun hunks
- A large or dense piece of something. a hunk of metal
- An attractive man, especially one who is muscular. The unfortunate thing about calling the season seven finale “The Dragon And The Wolf” is you can’t even reference it by name without picturing Daenerys Targaryen’s long-awaited hook-up with Jon Snow, her strapping hunk of an ally and also her nephew.
- 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.
- A honyock. "You ain't callin' me a country hunk, are you?" "Hell, naw!" Louie backed away and grinned.
- A material object considered purely as extended stuff without identity criteria.
hunk²
- /hʌŋk/ UK, US
Rhymes with -ʌŋk
Where it comes from
From Dutch honk (“the base in a game”).
noun
- A goal or base in children's games.
