different between lunkhead vs lunky

English

Probably from *lunk (perhaps an alteration of lump; compare hunk & hump), a diminutive of lump +? head.

lunkhead (plural lunkheads)

lunk +? -y

lunky (comparative lunkier, superlative lunkiest)

Stupid; slow-witted; unintelligent.
- 1990, John Updike, Rabbit at Rest, p. 98:
  As her mother tucks her brother in, Judy settles before the television and flicks from The Wonder Years to Night Court to a French movie, starring that lunky Depardieu who is in all of them, this time about a man who comes into a village and usurps another man’s identity, including his wife.

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