hunks
Americannoun
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a crabbed, disagreeable person.
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a covetous, stingy person; miser.
noun
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a crotchety old person
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a miserly person
Etymology
Origin of hunks
1595–1605; origin uncertain; cf. -s 4
Example Sentences
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These hunks of gently cooked fish and venison took up most of my freezer and cost a fortune, but I felt virtuous knowing that my dog was eating “human grade” fare.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 28, 2026
Generous hunks of vanilla bean dot her lemon marmalade; bay leaf infuses her blackberry jam.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 10, 2025
Metal and plastic hunks were strewn around the crash site.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 25, 2025
There is something archaic about these massive, welded hunks of steel, that seemed to have their heyday in the Pacific War of the 1940s.
From BBC • Feb. 20, 2025
He tore his bread into neat triangles, not ripped hunks, as Rafik did.
From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye
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