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hunkses

hunkses is the plural of hunks.

Meaning of hunks

Noun

hunks (plural hunkses)

  1. (dated, slang) A crotchety or surly person.
    • What of it, if some old hunks of a sea-captain orders me to get a broom and sweep down the decks? What does that indignity amount to, weighed, I mean, in the scales of the New Testament? Do you think the archangel Gabriel thinks anything the less of me, because I promptly and respectfully obey that...1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Loomings”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC
  2. (dated, slang) A stingy man; a miser.

Questions about hunkses

What is hunkses the plural of?
Hunkses is the plural of hunks.

Words near hunkses in the dictionary

  1. hunkish
  2. Hunkpapa
  3. Hunkpapas
  4. hunks
  5. hunks of junk
  6. hunkses
  7. hunksome
  8. hunkvertising
  9. hunky
  10. hunky dory
  11. hunky hand grenade

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