hunk

Meaning

1. A large or dense piece of something.
2. (informal) An attractive man, especially one who is muscular.
3. A record of differences between almost contiguous portions of two files (or other sources of information). Differences that are widely separated by areas which are identical in both files would not be part of a single hunk. Differences that are separated by small regions which are identical in both files may comprise a single hunk. Patches are made up of hunks.
4. (slang) A honyock.

Synonyms

chunk

piece

slice

lump

hunch

bit

looker

cake

🍰

choice morsel

clod

component

crumb

cut

gobbet

kickshaw

morsel

pile

rasher

scrap

section

snatch

tidbit

titbit

treat

wodge

part

large flat slice

bar

bi

bite

block

boulder

bulk

Pronounced as (IPA)

/hʌŋk/

Etymology

Probably borrowed from West Flemish hunke (“hunk; chunk”), of obscure origin. Probably from an earlier *humke, *humpke, a diminutive related to Dutch homp (“hunk; lump”), English hump, equivalent to hump + -kin. The sense of an attractive man is recorded in Australian slang in 1941, in jive talk in 1945.