different between hunker vs chunker

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?h??k?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?h??k?/
• Rhymes: -??k?(?)

Etymology 1

Originally Scottish. Origin uncertain, but probably of Germanic origin, perhaps *hunk- a nasalised variant of *huk- (compare Scots hoonk, hounk, variants of huk, hok (“to squat, crouch”); Scots hocker (“to crouch down, hunker”)), all of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse huka (“to crouch”), from Proto-Germanic *h?kan- (“to squat”), from *h?kkan-, back-formed from the iterative *huk(k)?n-, from Proto-Indo-European *kuk-néh?, from *kewk- (“to curve, bend”) (also the source of high).

Probable cognates include Old Norse húka, Dutch huiken, and German hocken.

Verb

hunker (third-person singular simple present hunkers, present participle hunkering, simple past and past participle hunkered)

1. (intransitive) To crouch or squat close to the ground or lie down
2. (intransitive) To apply oneself to a task

Synonyms

• (crouch, squat or lie): crouch, squat, lie

Derived terms

• hunkers
• hunker down

Translations

Etymology 2

Unknown

Noun

hunker (plural hunkers)

1. (dated) A political conservative.

See also

• hunkers

References

Anagrams

• Ruhnke

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??k?r

Verb

hunker

1. first-person singular present indicative of hunkeren
2. imperative of hunkeren

Anagrams

• hurken

English

Etymology

chunk +? -er

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??k?(?)

Noun

chunker (plural chunkers)

1. (informal) An obese or overweight person
   • 2009, Catherine Deveny, Free to a Good Home, page 193

     I love fat people. Chubby-chasing is my hobby. I enjoy nothing more than waving a vanilla slice under some chunker's nose, tying it to my bumper bar with a string of jelly snakes then driving round the block at gelati-van pace

   • 2011, Bil Wright, Putting Makeup on the Fat Boy, page 37

     Double-breasted on a chunker can sometimes be a really sad look, but on me this thing is L'uomo Vogue!

2. (computational linguistics) A software tool for dividing text into chunks.

Anagrams

• rechunk