hunky

English

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈhʌŋki/

Etymology 1

From hunk +‎ -y.

Adjective

hunky (comparative hunkier, superlative hunkiest)

(slang) 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
- Stephen Crane
  […] 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.

Related terms

hunk

Etymology 2

From the older hunk, probably alteration of Hungarian. Compare bohunk.

Alternative forms

hunkie
hunkey

Noun

hunky (plural hunkies)

(Canada, US, slang, ethnic slur) A person of Hungarian or Slavic, especially Ruthenian, descent.
- 2009, Victor Bockris, Warhol: The Biography‎, page 20:
  Like blacks, who were the only ethnic group below them on the social scale, Eastern Europeans, contemptuously labelled ‘hunkies’, were dismissed as incapable and untrustworthy.

References

“hunky” in the Katherine Barker, editor, Canadian Oxford Dictionary, 2nd edition, Don Mills, Ont.; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004, →ISBN.

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