Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hunky hand grenade

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.67 in modern English

Syllables: hunky hand -grenade
IPA

32

Scrabble Score

16

Letters

2

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A stuffed cabbage roll (holubtsi or gołąbki).

Colloquial

Example Sentences

"Near-synonyms: pig in a blanket, halupki, stuffed cabbage"
"In his opening while battling with Johnny, Hornak reached outside the ring for a foreign object which turned out to be a real halupki. That's right, a pig in the Blanket, the Hunky hand grenade. Hornak was catching a quick snack."
"While it has been “reclaimed” by many Rusyns the same way I have noticed “Indian” has been reclaimed by my Native American community, for example a stuffed cabbage dish called “kapusta” in Rusyn may be referred to as a “Hunky hand grenade” just as taco fillings in Native American frybread are called an “Indian taco”."

Etymology

hunky + hand grenade; originating from the Appalachian, Polish, Slovak, and Carpatho-Rusyn immigrant communities in Western Pennsylvania and Ohio.

Usage

Colloquial

Inflected Forms

hunky hand grenades (plural)

Synonyms

pig in a blanket halupki stuffed cabbage

Questions

What does hunky hand grenade mean?: A stuffed cabbage roll (holubtsi or gołąbki).
Where does hunky hand grenade come from?: hunky + hand grenade; originating from the Appalachian, Polish, Slovak, and Carpatho-Rusyn immigrant communities in Western Pennsylvania and Ohio.

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