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hunkie

hunkie 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

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Forms of hunkie

pluralhunkies

Questions about hunkie

What is hunkie the alternative form of?
Hunkie is the alternative form of hunky.

Words near hunkie in the dictionary

  1. hunkers
  2. hunkers down
  3. hunkey
  4. hunkeys
  5. hunkidory
  6. hunkie
  7. hunkier
  8. hunkies
  9. hunkiest
  10. hunkily
  11. hunkiness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hunkie (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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