hunks

[ huhngks ]

noun(used with a singular or plural verb)

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

Origin of hunks

1595–1605; origin uncertain; cf. -s⁴

Words Nearby hunks

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How to use hunks in a sentence

Gay magazines tend to be packed with celebrity, hunks, and (maybe) some politics.
The Winning Gay Subtlety of ‘Hello Mr.’ | Justin Jones | September 26, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
Oh, I think there are plenty of hunks left on Game of Thrones.
Kit Harington: Game of Thrones’ Jon Snow Learns to Fight Dirty | Marlow Stern | April 9, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
Ordinary people flocked to the Maidan, burning anything flammable and uprooting hunks of pavement to throw at police.
Ukraine’s Bloody Crackdown Enters Its Third Day | Oleg Shynkarenko | February 19, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
And all around Jon and Eric could see wrecked hardware, hunks of metal, smashed trucks, and shells.
The Night the SEALS Captured the Butcher of Fallujah | Patrick Robinson | November 11, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
When we get to the theater, the ticket vendor fans herself, swooning at the sight of all the hunks.
‘Magic Mike’ Review: 5 Strippers on the Channing Tatum Film | Ramin Setoodeh | June 29, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST

Out come their suppers: a whole roast fowl, hunks of kid, legs of lamb, huge breads.
Sea and Sardinia | D. H. Lawrence
I have a wife whom I married for love--her father is a wealthy hunks, but he discarded her for marrying me.
Grif | B. L. (Benjamin Leopold) Farjeon
It was dreadful to see the anxiety with which they watched the portioning of the thick heavy hunks of black bread.
The Dark Forest | Hugh Walpole
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.
Other Main-Travelled Roads | Hamlin Garland
We sat around on the grass, and got hunks of it on our tin plates.
Roads of Destiny | O. Henry

British Dictionary definitions for hunks

hunks

/ (hʌŋks) /

noun(functioning as singular) rare

a crotchety old person
a miserly person

Origin of hunks

C17: of unknown origin

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