hunky
/ˈhʌŋ.ki/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.72 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A Hungarian or other eastern European, e.g. a Romanian or a Slav. (Sometimes applied (like honky) to any white person.)
American usage; Slang
noun
Alternative letter-case form of hunky (“Hungarian, eastern European”).
Example Sentences
- "[…] he dropped like a brick into the firing line and began to shoot; began to get "hunky" with all those people who had been plugging at him."
- ""All hunkies and wops, and no wonder there was seven hundred and fifty of them.""
- "He made hunkies and cut ice-cream sandwiches."
- "The night before I had let a hunky called Big John have a dollar's worth of chips in the poker game […]"
- "He said, "I'm going to buy this building and turn this into a Nigger bar. I'm going to bar all you fucking hunkies.""
- "On the negative side, a hunky was culturally schizophrenic, an inhabitant of crowded and ill-kept rooms and whose clothing was in poor taste, an alcoholic, intrinsically dull and stupid, an offspring of domineering parents, […]"
Etymology
Etymology tree English hunk Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English hunky From hunk + -y.
Word Breakdown
- Suffix: -y
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈhʌŋ.ki/
- British English: /ˈhʌŋ.ki/