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Word entry · 4 letters

hunk

Best crossword clue

"Large solid piece"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /hʌŋk/Part of speech nounSorted hknuStarts with HEnds with K1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. a large piece of something without definite shape

Word origin

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.

Used in a sentence

  • a hunk of metal
  • "Jim, this is nice," I says. "I wouldn't want to be nowhere else but here. Pass me along another hunk of fish and some hot corn-bread."
  • A cowherd was sitting by the roadside eating this food, and as he was one of those pudding-faced, basin-clipped, decent fellows, he cut off two medium great hunks of bread and cheese for them.

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