hunk
A large or dense piece of somethingA large or dense piece of something.
» You're a hunk.
Ты красавчик.
Ты мачо.
Meaning
6 sensesA large or dense piece of something.
a hunk of metal
Stück
ломо́тьlomótʹ
a large piece of something without definite shape
(informal)An attractive man, especially one who is muscular.
Prachtkerl
краса́вецkrasávec, краса́вчикkrasávčik
a well-built sexually attractive man
A record of differences between almost contiguous portions of two files (or other sources of information). Differences that are widely separated by areas which are identical in both files would not be part of a single hunk. Differences that are separated by small regions which are identical in both files may comprise a single hunk. Patches are made up of hunks.
(US, slang)A honyock.
A material object considered purely as extended stuff without identity criteria.
(US)A goal or base in children's games.
Examples
7 sentencesYou're a hunk.
ruТы красавчик.
Look who's here, a total hunk.
We won't get very far with this hunk of junk.
Tom is a hunk.
Tom is such a hunk.
Translations
7 languagesBy meaning 2
By meaning 2
Origin
Probably borrowed from West Flemish hunke (“hunk; chunk”), of obscure origin. Probably froProbably borrowed from West Flemish hunke (“hunk; chunk”), of obscure origin. Probably from an earlier *humke, *humpke, a diminutive related to Dutch homp (“hunk; lump”), English hump, equivalent to hump + -kin. The sense of an attractive man is recorded in Australian slang in 1941, in jive talk in 1945.
From Dutch honk (“the base in a game”).
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