English

Adjective

hunky ‎(comparative hunkier, superlative hunkiest)

1. (slang) Exhibiting strong, masculine beauty.
2. Shaped like a hunk, or piece; chunky.
3. (US, slang) All right; in good condition.
4. (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)

1. (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 Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2004.