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hunky

1

[ huhng-kee ]

adjective

Slang.
  1. even; leaving no balance.


hunky

2

[ huhng-kee ]

adjective

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

hunky

3
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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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yvlog 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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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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“And then there’s the aesthetics of it, being seen as, you know, f— hunky or whatever it is. You have to kind of force yourself not to be defined by that.”

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He seemed to inspire an endangered masculine fantasy in the fragile months of Trump’s first ascent: a hunky progressive, proclaiming the virtues of the “Women’s March,” standing against alpha-wave alt-right figures.

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Barabak: I’m feeling both hunky and dory, but that’s because I don’t let things beyond my control — earthquakes, asteroids, crushingly disappointing election results — get me down.

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Diggs, a member of the original Broadway company of “Rent,” had become a sex symbol, fresh off his star-making role as Angela Bassett’s hunky love interest in “How Stella Got Her Groove Back.”

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