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  2. Slang. (of a male) handsome and having well-developed physique. hunky. 3. or hunk·ie. [ huhng -kee ] Phonetic (Standard) IPA. noun. , (sometimes initial capital letter) , plural hunk·ies. a contemptuous term used to refer to a person of Hungarian or Slavic descent, especially an unskilled or semiskilled worker. Discover More.

  3. Historical thesaurus. colloquial and slang. hunkiness, n. meanings, etymology, pronunciation and more in the Oxford English Dictionary.

  4. Hunky is an ethnic slur used in the United States to refer to immigrants from Central Europe. It originated in the coal regions of Pennsylvania and West Virginia, where immigrants from Central Europe ( Hungarians (Magyar), Romanians, Czechs, Slovaks, Rusyns, Ukrainians, Slovenes, Serbs, Croats) came from the Austro-Hungarian Empire to perform ...

  5. Jan 2, 2005 · A person of Eastern European descent. Used as a derogatory term in the early 1900s to describe poor working immigrants from mainly Hungary, Slovakia and Ukraine looking for work in industrialized regions of the United States.

  6. As nouns the difference between hunky and hunkiness is that hunky is (north america|slang|ethnic slur) a person of hungarian or slavic, especially ruthenian, descent while hunkiness is the state or condition of being hunky. As an adjective hunky is (slang) exhibiting strong, masculine beauty.

  7. The meaning of HUNKY is being a hunk : attractive and usually well-built. How to use hunky in a sentence.

  8. noun Word forms: plural hunkies (sometimes cap.) derogatory, offensive slang. a person of Hungarian or Slavic descent, esp. an unskilled or semiskilled worker. Also: hunkie. Most material © 2005, 1997, 1991 by Penguin Random House LLC. Modified entries © 2019 by Penguin Random House LLC and HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. Word origin.

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