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hunk

(hŭngk)

1. Informal A large piece; a chunk: a hunk of fresh bread.

2. Slang A physically attractive man, usually with a well-developed physique.

[Perhaps from Flemish hunke, a piece of food.]

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hunk

(hʌŋk)

1. a large piece

2. slang Also called: hunk of a man a well-built, sexually attractive man

[C19: probably related to Flemish hunke; compare Dutch homp lump]

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hunk

(hʌŋk)

n.

1. a large piece or lump; chunk.

2. Slang. a handsome man with a well-developed physique.

[1805–15; < Dutch dial. hunke]

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Noun	1.	hunk - a well-built sexually attractive man adult male, man - an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman); "there were two women and six men on the bus"
	2.	hunk - a large piece of something without definite shape; "a hunk of bread"; "a lump of coal" lump nodule - (mineralogy) a small rounded lump of mineral substance (usually harder than the surrounding rock or sediment) nugget - a solid lump of a precious metal (especially gold) as found in the earth part, piece - a portion of a natural object; "they analyzed the river into three parts"; "he needed a piece of granite"

hunk

noun

1. lump, piece, chunk, block, mass, wedge, slab, nugget, wodge (Brit. informal), gobbet a thick hunk of bread

2. (Informal) stud (informal), he-man (informal), macho man, tough guy (informal), strongman, beefcake (informal), muscleman a blond, blue-eyed hunk

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hunk

noun

1. Informal. An irregularly shaped mass of indefinite size:

chunk, clod, clump, gob, hunch, lump, nugget, wad.

2. Slang. A person regarded as physically attractive.Used of a man:

beauty, belle (used of a woman), lovely, stunner.

Slang: babe, doll, knockout, looker, stud (used of a man).

Translations

قِطْعَةٌ كبيرة

kus

humpellunsstort stykketyr

adonisherkkupalaisomuskelimiesnamupala

bout

stórt afskoriî stykki

grosso pezzo pezzo

riekėtikras vyras

bieza šķēlerika

bink

armăsar

dilimiri parka

hunk

[hʌŋk] N

1. [of bread, cheese, cake] → (buen) trozo m, pedazo m (grande)

2. (= man) → monumento m, cachas m inv (Sp)

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

hunk

[ˈhʌŋk] n

[bread, cheese] → gros morceau m

(= man) → beau mec m

hunker down

[ˌhʌŋkə^rˈdaʊn] vi (US)

(= squat) → s'accroupir

(= lie low) → adopter un profil bas

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

hunk

→ Stück nt

(fig inf: = man) a gorgeous hunk (of a man) → ein Mann! (inf)

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

hunk

[hʌŋk] n (of bread, cheese) → bel pezzo
a gorgeous hunk of a man (fam) → un bel fusto

hunk

(haŋk) noun

a lump of something broken or cut off from a larger piece. a hunk of cheese/bread.

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Bolter having had his laugh out, took a series of large bites, which finished his first hunk of bread and butter, and assisted himself to a second.

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Pass me along another hunk of fish and some hot corn-bread."

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"The terrestrial, globular, planetary hunk of matter, slightly flattened at the poles, and known as the Earth, is my abode.

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Tarzan grasped his kill and dragged it to the partial seclusion of the bush which had hidden his own near approach, and there he squatted upon it, cut a huge hunk of flesh from the loin and proceeded to satisfy his hunger with the warm and dripping meat.

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Conducted to the butler's pantry, Geoffrey requested that functionary to produce a jug of his oldest ale, with appropriate solid nourishment in the shape of "a hunk of bread and cheese."

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Therefore I resolved to put my hunk of bread-and-butter down the leg of my trousers.

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A pot boiled upon the edge of the fire, and out of it one of the creatures would occasionally drag a hunk of meat with a sharpened stick.

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When he came back to her blood smeared his face and hands and breast and she shrank from him as he offered her a huge hunk of hot, raw meat.

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Thank you." It was a formidable hunk of bread and bacon that Mrs.

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What of it, if some old hunks of a sea-captain orders me to get a broom and sweep down the decks?

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That you become the sole inheritor of the wealth of this rich old hunks, that you and I spend it together, and that you get into the bargain a beautiful young wife.'

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They had brought him his supper, which was "duffers and dope"--being hunks of dry bread on a tin plate, and coffee, called "dope" because it was drugged to keep the prisoners quiet.