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- noun Plural form of
hunky .
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Examples
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The manners and customs of the gang are to build shanties or "hunkies," hunt with sling shots, build fires before huts in the woods, cook their squirrels and other game, play Indian, build tree-platforms, where they smoke or troop about some leader, who may have an old revolver.
Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene G. Stanley Hall 1885
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Yesh, choklit wiff choklit candy hunkies and sirup!
Whin ai sai “ai go wiff u…” - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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She's trying to bring up managers, not mill hunkies.
Tom Hoffman about Essential Schools 10 common Principles 2008
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Formerly the big contractor in the North could pick a few hunkies from a long line of eager applicants for work.
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Wherever he went, the hunkies danced; he could put life into a dead man's limbs, that man.
The Auction Block Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913
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When I grew up I prayed for a chance to get even, for his sake and for the sake of the other hunkies you killed.
The Auction Block Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913
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The bear howled murder as the stuff ran into his eyes, and plunking himself on his hunkies, he began to paw and scrape it out.
Red Saunders' Pets and Other Critters Henry Wallace Phillips 1899
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Fourth generation Croations those "dumb hunkies" who settled Strawberry Hill drink with Serbians fresh from the old country.
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Fourth generation Croations - those "dumb hunkies" who settled Strawberry Hill - drink with Serbians fresh from the old country.
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Arriving at Ellis Island, Hungarian immigrants-or hunkies, as they were derogatorily called-encountered tremendous obstacles.
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