Word.ws English Dictionary

hunk

UK/hʌŋk/

hunk noun: a large or dense piece of something.

Noun (1)

hunk (plural hunks)

  1. A large or dense piece of something.
    • a hunk of metal
    • "Jim, this is nice," I says. "I wouldn't want to be nowhere else but here. Pass me along another hunk of fish and some hot corn-bread."1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter IX, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC, page 75
  2. (informal) 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.2017 August 27, Brandon Nowalk, “Game Of Thrones slows down for the longest, and best, episode of the season (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club
    • Diana’s most recent romantic adventure at that time was with the sturdy hunk Will Carling, captain of the England rugby team, whom she had met in 1995 working out at the Chelsea Harbor Club gym.April 5 2022, Tina Brown, “How Princess Diana’s Dance With the Media Impacted William and Harry”, in Vanity Fair
  3. 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.
  4. (US, slang) A honyock.
    • "You ain't callin' me a country hunk, are you?" "Hell, naw!" Louie backed away and grinned.1941, William Woodrow Chamberlain, Leaf Gold, page 76
  5. A material object considered purely as extended stuff without identity criteria.

Noun (2)

hunk

  1. (US) A goal or base in children's games.

hunk meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

hunk in Hindi

हंक

hunk in Tamil

பெருந்துண்டு

hunk in Marathi

हंक

hunk in Urdu

بڑا ٹکڑا, جوان مرد, مرد
More languagesFewer languages
hunk in Telugu
హంక్, హన్క్
hunk in Malayalam
വലിയ കഷണം, മുഴുത്തകഷണം, മുഴുപ്പള്ള കട്ട, വലിയ കട്ട
hunk in Kannada
ಹಂಕ್, ಹನ್ಕ್
hunk in Gujarati
હંક
hunk in Odia
ହଙ୍କ

Examples of hunk in a sentence

  • A cowherd was sitting by the roadside eating this food, and as he was one of those pudding-faced, basin-clipped, decent fellows, he cut off two medium great hunks of bread and cheese for them.1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 39:
  • GET RID OF THAT PESTIFEROUS HUNK OF JUNK!2016, Mau Heymans, Kirsten De Graaff, translated by Dwight Decker, “Late-Night Larceny”, in Donald Duck: Timeless Tales (Disney Comics)...

All 24 example sentences with hunk

Synonyms of hunk

30 more synonymsFewer synonyms

All synonyms of hunk

Forms of hunk

pluralhunks

Plural of hunk: hunks

Origin of hunk

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.

From Dutch honk (“the base in a game”).

Words formed from hunk

Words that rhyme with hunk

17 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about hunk

What does hunk mean?
Hunk means a large or dense piece of something.
What is hunk in Hindi?
Hunk in Hindi is हंक. See Hunk meaning in Hindi.
How do you use hunk in a sentence?
A cowherd was sitting by the roadside eating this food, and as he was one of those pudding-faced, basin-clipped, decent fellows, he cut off two medium great hunks of bread and cheese for them.
What part of speech is hunk?
Hunk is a noun.
How do you pronounce hunk?
Hunk is pronounced /hʌŋk/ (UK).
What is the plural of hunk?
The plural of hunk is hunks.

Words near hunk in the dictionary

  1. huniaks
  2. Hunigoderehaa
  3. Huningue
  4. Hunipui
  5. Hunjiang
  6. hunk
  7. hunk of junk
  8. hunkdom
  9. hunker
  10. hunker down
  11. hunkered

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: hunk (page history and authors); hunk (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hunk (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); hunk (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hunk (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); hunk (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hunk (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); hunk (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hunk (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hunk (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: En-au-hunk.ogg.

Cite this entry: “hunk.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/hunk. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.