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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

/ ³óʌŋ°ì²õ /

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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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of hunks1

1595–1605; origin uncertain; -s 4
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of hunks1

C17: of unknown origin
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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. Christmasâ€: Parker Gregory, 39.

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Q: In The Blue Plate, you dig into the emissions impact of the production and consumption of everything from husks of corn to hunks of meat.

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Every man in the film is repellent, even the hunks, and as the film goes on, they metastasize into an anonymous graying horde.

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“I mean this is dangerous. It’s big hunks of metal flying through the sky,†he says.

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