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hunks

[huhngks]

noun

(used with a singular or plural verb)
  1. a crabbed, disagreeable person.

  2. a covetous, stingy person; miser.



hunks

/ ʌŋ /

noun

  1. a crotchety old person

  2. a miserly person

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of hunks1

1595–1605; origin uncertain; -s 4
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of hunks1

C17: of unknown origin
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Anthony has a thriving bakery business staffed by well-endowed hunks in too-tight denim uniforms.

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A perfectly executed send-up of the loud, hyper, over-the-top TV ads that have driven generations of kiddos to beg their parents to purchase hunks of plastic shaped like muscular heroes and ferocious monsters.

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Metal and plastic hunks were strewn around the crash site.

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There is something archaic about these massive, welded hunks of steel, that seemed to have their heyday in the Pacific War of the 1940s.

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Meet some of the hunks of Hallmark’s “Finding Mr. Christmas”: Parker Gregory, 39.

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