different between hunky vs dory

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?h??ki/

Etymology 1

From hunk +? -y.

Adjective

hunky (comparative hunkier, superlative hunkiest)

1. (informal) Exhibiting strong, masculine beauty.
2. Shaped like a hunk, or piece; chunky.
3. (US, slang) All right; in good condition.
4. (US, slang) even; square; on equal footing with
   • 1900, Stephen Crane, Wounds in the Rain

     […] he dropped like a brick into the firing line and began to shoot; began to get "hunky" with all those people who had been plugging at him.

Related terms

• hunk

Etymology 2

From the older *hunk, probably alteration of Hungarian. Compare bohunk and honky / honkey.

Alternative forms

• hunkie
• hunkey

Noun

hunky (plural hunkies)

1. (US, slang, now uncommon, ethnic slur) A Hungarian or other eastern European, e.g. a Romanian or a Slav. (Sometimes applied (like honky) to any white person.)
   • 1924, Jack Bethea, Bed Rock, page 175:

     "All hunkies and wops, and no wonder there was seven hundred and fifty of them."

   • 1940, Unemployment Compensation Interpretation Service: Benefit series, page 183:

     He made hunkies and cut ice-cream sandwiches.

   • 1952, Chester Himes, Cast the First Stone, page 66:

     The night before I had let a hunky called Big John have a dollar's worth of chips in the poker game […]

   • 1969, Robert Beck (Iceberg Slim), Trick Baby, page 149:

     He said, "I'm going to buy this building and turn this into a Nigger bar. I'm going to bar all you fucking hunkies."

   • 1994, Josephine Wtulich, American Xenophobia and the Slav Immigrant: A Living Legacy of Mind and Spirit:

     On the negative side, a hunky was culturally schizophrenic, an inhabitant of crowded and ill-kept rooms and whose clothing was in poor taste, an alcoholic, intrinsically dull and stupid, an offspring of domineering parents, […]

References

• “hunky” in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2004.

English

Etymology 1

Attested in American English from 1709 C.E.; possibly derived from an indigenous language of the West Indies or Central America, perhaps Miskito.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d???i/
• Rhymes: -???i

Noun

dory (plural dories)

1. (nautical) A small flat-bottomed boat with pointed or somewhat pointed ends, used for fishing both offshore and on rivers.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English dorry, from Old French doree, past participle of dorer (“to gild”), from Latin deauratus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d???i/
• Rhymes: -???i

Noun

dory (plural dories)

1. Any of several different families of large-eyed, silvery, deep-bodied, laterally compressed, and roughly discoid marine fish.

Translations

Adjective

dory (comparative more dory, superlative most dory)

1. (obsolete) Of a bright yellow or golden color.

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ???? (dóru).

Pronunciation

Noun

dory (plural dories)

1. A wooden pike or spear about three metres (ten feet) in length with a flat, leaf-shaped iron spearhead and a bronze butt-spike (called a sauroter), which was the main weapon of hoplites in Ancient Greece. It was usually not thrown but rather thrust at opponents with one hand.
   • 2011 (republished 2014 as an e-book), Chris McNab, A History of the World in 100 Weapons, Oxford: Osprey Publishing, ?ISBN, page 37:

     The principal weapon of the hoplite was the dory spear. It was unusually long – it could measure up to 10ft (3m) in length, and weighed about 4.4lb (2kg). At one end was a broad, leaf-pattern spearhead, while at the other end was a metal spike called a sauroter. The purpose of the spike is much debated: it almost certainly acted as a counterbalance, making the spear easier to hold and wield; it could have been used as an improvised spear point, or for making downward attacks on the enemy's exposed feet; or it might even have been embedded in the ground to keep the spear in place.

Alternative forms

• doru

Further reading

• dory on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• dory (fish) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• dory (spear) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “dory”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Anagrams

• dyor