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hunk
English
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /h??k/
- Rhymes: -??k
Etymology 1
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.
Noun
hunk (plural hunks)
- A large or dense piece of something.
- a hunk of metal
- 1884: Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter IX
- "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."
- (informal) A sexually attractive man, especially one who is muscular.
- (computing) 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.
- (US, slang) A honyock.
Synonyms
- (large or dense piece): chunk, lump, piece
- (sexually attractive boy): beefcake
Derived terms
- hunky
Translations
See also
- bohunk
Etymology 2
Dutch honk (“the base in a game”)
Noun
hunk
- (US) A goal or base in children's games.
References
- “hunk” in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2004.
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “hunk”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
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paring
English
Verb
paring
- present participle of pare
Noun
paring (plural parings)
- A fragment or shaving that has been pared.
- The cutting off of the surface of grassland for tillage.
Anagrams
- pringá, raping
Dutch
Etymology
From paren (“to pair; to mate, to copulate”) +? -ing
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: pa?ring
Noun
paring f (plural paringen, diminutive parinkje n)
- pairing (in a tournament)
- copulation, mating
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