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hunkey

hunkey is the alternative form of hunky.

Meaning of hunky

Noun

hunky (plural hunkies)

  1. (US, ethnic, slang, slur, uncommon) A Hungarian or other eastern European, e.g. a Romanian or a Slav. (Sometimes applied (like honky) to any white person.)
    • "All hunkies and wops, and no wonder there was seven hundred and fifty of them."1924, Jack Bethea, Bed Rock, page 175

See all 5 meanings of hunky

Forms of hunkey

pluralhunkeys

Questions about hunkey

What is hunkey the alternative form of?
Hunkey is the alternative form of hunky.

Words near hunkey in the dictionary

  1. hunkerism
  2. hunkerous
  3. hunkerousness
  4. hunkers
  5. hunkers down
  6. hunkey
  7. hunkeys
  8. hunkidory
  9. hunkie
  10. hunkier
  11. hunkies

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hunkey (page history and authors); hunky (page history and authors). 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.

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