different between chunky vs chinky

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t???ki/
• Rhymes: -??ki

Etymology 1

chunk +? -y

Adjective

chunky (comparative chunkier or more chunky, superlative chunkiest or most chunky)

1. Having chunks.

   I ate a chunky bar of chocolate.

   • 2012, Giuliano Hazan, Giuliano Hazan's Thirty Minute Pasta: 100 Quick and Easy Recipes, Open Road Media (?ISBN)

     They are traditionally served with meat sauces, but are also good with chunky vegetable sauces.
2. (euphemistic, of a person) Fat.

   I prefer chunky blonde girls to skinny brunettes.

   • 2009, Dan Elconin, Never After, Simon and Schuster (?ISBN), page 112:

     “Nigel used to be chunky, huh?” “I was not chunky,” Nigel said testily. “I was just... hefty .

   • 2011, Broxin Delano, Black Sparrow, BalboaPress (?ISBN), page 19:

     In sixth grade I was first propositioned by a chunky girl named Tijuana Downs. She called me on the telephone one evening and asked me if I would like to be her boyfriend.

3. Of a cat: having a large, solid bodyline.

   The British Shorthair has a distinctively chunky body, dense coat and broad face.

Synonyms

• (overweight): portly, rotund, obese, husky

Translations

Etymology 2

See chunkey.

Noun

chunky (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of chunkey (Native American game).
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:chunky.

English

Etymology

chink +? -y

Pronunciation

Adjective

chinky (comparative more chinky, superlative most chinky)

1. Full of chinks, laden with small cracks or openings.
   • 1826, Benjamin Apthorp Gould, The Works of Vergil: Translated into English Prose

     […] the accustomed warmth pierced his marrow, and ran thrilling through his shaken bones; just as when at times, with forked thunder burst, a chinky stream of fire in flashy lightning shoots athwart the skies.

   • 1884, The Australian Journal

     The door was knockerless and chinky, and creaked dismally as I inserted the key.

2. (derogatory, offensive) Possessing attributes of, or similar to, a Chinese person or Chinese style or culture.

Noun

chinky (plural chinkies)

1. (Britain, slang, possibly offensive) A Chinese takeaway restaurant.
2. (Britain, slang, possibly offensive) A meal of Chinese food.
3. (offensive) A Chinese person.
4. (India, offensive) A person from Northeast India.

Synonyms

• chink