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Hunks

Hunks \Hunks\, n. [Etymol. uncertain.] A covetous, sordid man; a miser; a niggard.

Pray make your bargain with all the prudence and selfishness of an old hunks.
--Gray.

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hunks

Etymology 1 n. (context slang dated English) A crotchety or surly person; also, a stingy man, a miser. Etymology 2

n. (plural of hunk English)

Usage examples of "hunks".

These two nitwits must be trying to turn themselves into hunks to hold on to their jobs.

But, after nipping off several choice hunks, the creature had no trouble regaining flight by running the length of the neck and flapping its massive furred wings a couple of times.

With his long arms, he was carrying a silver tray laden with hunks of meat.

Tearing with stone claws, it ripped more hunks loose, bit through them, slammed them down, hurled them away.

Set on stones were elven winter rations and fresh game: oat cakes with salt and maple syrup, dried herring, hunks of deer and bear and bison, even barrels of ale and a trough of spring water.

Putrid hunks of flesh and decomposing organs fell into the dirt until finally the decay crept up his neck.

They kicked aside hunks and shards of ice, then grabbed a torch from one of the wall sconces.

She forgot them as she struggled in the cramped space of the pit, covered with blood and mud, backing out hunks of meat and trying not to damage the hide any worse than it was.

Ayla looked at the last two hunks of meat, washed of mud in the stream, and reached for one.

The short length of chain that connected the two hunks of wood lay on top of his shoulder.

Round about me there was womanlessness, jawlines, crewcuts, hunks leathered up like frogmen, Adam in full stubble and muscle and sweat.

In the silence of the guest room I settled into the chair, sighed, and popped one of the pizza hunks into my mouth.

He opened the sack and took out-I find it hard to recall this experience-took out pieces of animal, pelt still bloodied, hunks of meat.

Only ruins-old brick-and-cement foundation, a portion of a wall, scattered hunks of concrete in the moonlight-remained.

When he reaches a centerfold of hairless hunks wearing G-strings and fishnet bikini briefs, he slaps the magazine shut.