hunks

American  

[huhngks] / hʌŋks /

noun

(used with a singular or plural verb)

1. a crabbed, disagreeable person.

2. a covetous, stingy person; miser.

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hunks British  

/ hʌŋks /

noun

1. a crotchety old person

2. a miserly person

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Etymology

Origin of hunks

1595–1605; origin uncertain; -s ⁴

Example Sentences

Generous hunks of vanilla bean dot her lemon marmalade; bay leaf infuses her blackberry jam.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 10, 2025

The cow’s milk variety is delicate, buttery, and lightly cured, with a creamy, spreadable consistency that’s dreamy on hunks of sourdough.

From Salon • Dec. 4, 2025

I tore through half a bottle in a week—drizzling it over salads, spooning it onto seafood, and, of course, dunking torn-up hunks of crusty French bread.

From Salon • Dec. 4, 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

Anyway, I kept worrying that I was getting pneumonia, with all those hunks of ice in my hair, and that I was going to die.

From "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger