chunk
/t͡ʃʌŋk/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.64 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A part of something that has been separated; a generally squat, thick, irregular piece of something, e.g. wood or stone.
noun
A part of something that has been separated; a generally squat, thick, irregular piece of something, e.g. wood or stone.
noun
A sequence of two or more words that occur in language with high frequency but are not idiomatic.
noun
A discrete segment of a file, stream, etc. (especially one that represents audiovisual media); a block.
noun
A segment of a comedian's performance.
Example Sentences
- "The statue broke into chunks."
- "a chunk of granite"
- "Daylight, between mouthfuls, fed chunks of ice into the tin pot, where it thawed into water. […] Daylight cut up generous chunks of bacon and dropped them in the pot of bubbling beans."
- "Until the main road from Hatfield to Hertford was diverted a few years ago, heavy lorries trundling through the village sometimes knocked chunks off corner buildings, but now the village has regained much of its former tranquillity."
- "I'd be willing to bet a chunk of my retirement that the number hasn't decreased."
- "[…] she'd be willing to bet a chunk of change this would be one of the nicest rooms Kate-Lynn Bowers had ever slept in: it was the sort of place you'd think twice about running away from."
Etymology
Variant of chuck; or alternatively a diminutive of chump (“chunk; block”) + *-k (diminutive suffix) (compare hunk from hump, etc.). Also compare Dutch schonk.