different between junky vs hunky
junky
English
Etymology
junk +? -y
Pronunciation
Adjective
junky (comparative junkier, superlative junkiest)
- Resembling or characteristic of junk; cheap, worthless, or of low quality.
Noun
junky (plural junkies)
- (slang, derogatory) Alternative spelling of junkie
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hunky
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?h??ki/
Etymology 1
From hunk +? -y.
Adjective
hunky (comparative hunkier, superlative hunkiest)
- (informal) Exhibiting strong, masculine beauty.
- Shaped like a hunk, or piece; chunky.
- (US, slang) All right; in good condition.
- (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.
- 1900, Stephen Crane, Wounds in the Rain
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)
- (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, […]
- 1924, Jack Bethea, Bed Rock, page 175:
References
- “hunky” in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2004.
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