hunks

[ huhngks ]

noun

, (used with a singular or plural verb)

1. a crabbed, disagreeable person.
2. a covetous, stingy person; miser.

hunks

/ hʌŋks /

noun

1. a crotchety old person
2. a miserly person

Word History and Origins

Origin of hunks¹

1595–1605; origin uncertain; -s ⁴

Word History and Origins

Origin of hunks¹

C17: of unknown origin

Example Sentences

Gay magazines tend to be packed with celebrity, hunks, and (maybe) some politics.

From The Daily Beast

Oh, I think there are plenty of hunks left on Game of Thrones.

From The Daily Beast

Ordinary people flocked to the Maidan, burning anything flammable and uprooting hunks of pavement to throw at police.

From The Daily Beast

And all around Jon and Eric could see wrecked hardware, hunks of metal, smashed trucks, and shells.

From The Daily Beast

When we get to the theater, the ticket vendor fans herself, swooning at the sight of all the hunks.

From The Daily Beast

Out come their suppers: a whole roast fowl, hunks of kid, legs of lamb, huge breads.

From Project Gutenberg

I have a wife whom I married for love--her father is a wealthy hunks, but he discarded her for marrying me.

From Project Gutenberg

It was dreadful to see the anxiety with which they watched the portioning of the thick heavy hunks of black bread.

From Project Gutenberg

He had a taffler, or assistant, in the person of a half-grown boy, at whom he jerked rough orders like hunks of stove wood.

From Project Gutenberg

We sat around on the grass, and got hunks of it on our tin plates.

From Project Gutenberg