hunky
1Origin of hunky
1Other definitions for hunky (2 of 3)
Slang. (of a male) handsome and having well-developed physique.
Origin of hunky
2Other definitions for hunky (3 of 3)
or hunk·ie
a contemptuous term used to refer to a person of Hungarian or Slavic descent, especially an unskilled or semiskilled worker.
Origin of hunky
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How to use hunky in a sentence
I meet 'em sometimes around the city, ridin' in carriages and all of them wearin' white shirts, and here I am with these Hunkies.
He did what American young men dislike very much to do,—he took a common laborer's position along with the "Hunkies."
The Hunkies come scramblin' over it and carried away all the wood to burn, and what was left was certainly a mess.
It ain't the Hunkies,—they couldn't do it,—but the Irish don't have to work this way.
These Dagoes and Hunkies have got to learn that this is a white man's country, and they ain't wanted here.
Babbitt | Sinclair Lewis
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