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hunky

1

[huhng-kee]

adjective

Slang.
  1. satisfactory; well; all right.

  2. even; leaving no balance.



hunky

2

[huhng-kee]

adjective

hunkier, hunkiest 
  1. Slang.(of a male) handsome and having well-developed physique.

hunky

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[huhng-kee]

noun

(sometimes initial capital letter)

plural

hunkies 
  1. a contemptuous term used to refer to a person of Hungarian or Slavic descent, especially an unskilled or semiskilled worker.

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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of hunky1

An Americanism dating back to 1860–65; from obsolete New York City slang term hunk, used especially by boys at play for home base, home (the goal); from Dutch honk “post, station, base, home” + -y 1 ( def. ); hunky-dory ( def. )

Origin of hunky2

First recorded in 1910–15; hunk + -y 1

Origin of hunky3

First recorded in 1905–10; (bo)hunk ( def. ) + -y 2 ( def. )
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The actor’s handsome, vaguely blank countenance is meant to suggest a burly, hunky everyman — the sort of person you’d never suspect or look twice at, which makes Tucker well-positioned to leave a trail of corpses in his path.

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Everybody thought we were lying - this place was all hunky dory.

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You come out of the theater realizing that your hunky idol had negligible screen time — at least you think so.

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And Luke, the hunky diner guy?

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This was thanks in no small part to the beach volleyball scene, in which Kilmer oozed the sort of hunky machismo that’s even more beguiling the more you try to resist it.

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