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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[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.

Noun.

A covetous sordid man; a miser; a niggard.

hunks ‎(plural hunkses)

(slang, dated) A crotchety or surly person; also, a stingy man, a miser.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick:
  Now, Bildad, I am sorry to say, had the reputation of being an incorrigible old hunks, and in his sea-going days, a bitter, hard task-master.

Inflected forms.

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