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noun
A large or dense piece of something.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Synonyms: chunk, lump, bit, chip, tranche, clip, crumb, crumbling, cutting, flake, fleak, fragment, hunk, mammock, ort, piece, piecemeal, portion, scrap, scraplet, slice, snead, snippet, steck
Antonyms: none provided
noun
An attractive man, especially one who is muscular.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
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Synonyms: beefcake, stud, bona omi, Chad, chicken, chick magnet, dimber cove, dreamboat, himbo, hunk, lady-killer, man-meat, pretty boy, rizzler, spunk, stud muffin, superhunk, twink
Antonyms: none provided
noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
A honyock.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, slang
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: hick, yokel, bogger, bogtrotter, boor, bucolic, bydlo, culchie, carl, churl, corncob, cornhusker, country bumpkin, country cousin, clodhopper, dubbo, joskin, hayseed, hob, hobnail, hog-rubber, honyock, hunk, lob, promdi, provincial, rube, rustic, woolly back
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A material object considered purely as extended stuff without identity criteria.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: human-sciences, philosophy, sciences
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
A goal or base in children's games.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US
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Synonyms: none provided
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noun
a large piece of something without definite shape
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: lump
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: part, piece
Narrower terms: nodule, nugget
noun
a well-built sexually attractive man
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: man, adult male
History
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”).
Across languages
57 source translations are retained for this English entry.
