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hunkies

hunkies is the plural of hunkie.

hunkies is the plural 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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Noun capitalized: Hunkies

Hunkies

  1. (plural) plural of Hunky

Questions about hunkies

What is hunkies the plural of?
Hunkies is the plural of hunkie.
What part of speech is hunkies?
Hunkies is a noun.

Words near hunkies in the dictionary

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

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