Hunk vs. Junk — What's the Difference?

A large piece of something, especially food, cut or broken off a larger piece

Discarded material, such as glass, rags, paper, or metal, some of which may be reused in some form.

A large, strong, sexually attractive man

Articles that are worn-out or fit to be discarded

(Informal) A large piece; a chunk

Cheap or shoddy material.

(Slang) A physically attractive man, usually with a well-developed physique.

Something meaningless, fatuous, or unbelievable

A large or dense piece of something.

The genitals.

(informal) An attractive man, especially one who is muscular.

The buttocks.

(computing) 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.

(Slang) Heroin.

A honyock.

Hard salt beef for consumption on board a ship.

(US) A goal or base in children's games.

A traditional Chinese sailing vessel having a high poop and usually two or more masts bearing battened lugsails.

A large lump or piece; a hunch; as, a hunk of bread.

To discard as useless or sell to be reused as parts; scrap.

A sexually attractive, well-built man.

Cheap, shoddy, or worthless

A well-built sexually attractive man

Having a superficial appeal or utility, but lacking substance

A large piece of something without definite shape;

Relating to or similar to junk bonds, especially in having a high risk of default

Discarded or waste material; rubbish, trash, garbage.

A collection of miscellaneous items of little value.

(slang) Any narcotic drug, especially heroin.

(slang) The genitalia, especially of a male.

(nautical) salt beef.

Pieces of old cable or cordage, used for making gaskets, mats, swabs, etc., and when picked to pieces, forming oakum for filling the seams of ships.

(dated) A fragment of any solid substance; a thick piece; a chunk.

(attributive) Material or resources of a kind lacking commercial value.

; gibberish.

(nautical) A Chinese sailing vessel.

To throw away.

To find something for very little money (meaning derived from the term junkshop)

A fragment of any solid substance; a thick piece. See Chunk.

Pieces of old cable or old cordage, used for making gaskets, mats, swabs, etc., and when picked to pieces, forming oakum for filling the seams of ships.

Old iron, or other metal, glass, paper, etc., bought and sold by junk dealers.

Something worthless, or only worth its value as recyclable scrap.

Hard salted beef supplied to ships.

A large vessel, without keel or prominent stem, and with huge masts in one piece, used by the Chinese, Japanese, Siamese, Malays, etc., in navigating their waters.

The remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up

Any of various Chinese boats with a high poop and lugsails

Dispose of (something useless or old);