What's the difference between chunky and hunky?

Chunky


Definition:

  • (a.) Short and thick.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The invaginations were classified into four easily recognized types: regular, chunky, filigree, and ridge (present only in axon hillock regions).
  • (2) Rolls-Royce, which is owned by the German carmaker BMW , said demand had been strong for the Wraith, a chunky, gas-guzzling two-door car priced at more than £210,000.
  • (3) Capote clearly identified with this "chunky, misshapen child-man".
  • (4) The trick is that the service will run, not along thin telephone fibres, but chunky electricity cable, a centimetre thick.
  • (5) A Nestlé Kit Kat Chunky Collection Giant Egg was advertised at £7.49 for 10 days in January this year at Ocado, then sold on offer at £5 for 51 days.
  • (6) Some have voices so wispy that they are indistinguishable from the chunky backing tracks and others seem to have never been able to pick out a tune in their life.
  • (7) Both measures are now showing chunky rises, with the claimant count up by 37,100 between June and July, and the LFS measure rising by 38,000 in the three months to June.
  • (8) US Treasuries have also strengthened, driving down yields on America's 10-year bonds by a chunky 8 basis points to 2.812% , from 2.9% on Friday.
  • (9) Over the next year the sequence of events is likely to be growing recessionary pressure leading to weaker inflationary pressure, prompting chunky falls in interest rates.
  • (10) I had meetings with all sorts of people and I'm going up for roles that are so chunky so …" he pauses for a minute and apologises for getting too passionate.
  • (11) A chunky piece of ugly technology, the sobriety bracelet is used to detect even a smidgen of alcohol in the perspiration of its wearer, from whom readings are sent twice a day in order to monitor their abstinence.
  • (12) Perhaps it was because, despite being the first portable music player, it wasn't as easy to lug around as the MP3 player; its chunky dimensions compelled it to be worn clipped to a belt, creating the danger that it would unclip itself – which it did with obnoxious regularity – and crash to the ground, disgorging its batteries.
  • (13) Previous star performers such as Sports Direct and Associated British Foods are being hit hard... Retail was one of the best-performing sectors in the first quarter, but the result of this was that many names were trading at chunky valuations, making them vulnerable to any momentum-driven selloff.
  • (14) When I buy my copy of the Observer on a Sunday I realise what a wonderfully chunky product it is."
  • (15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Moto 360 beside the Samsung Gear Live Photograph: Samuel Gibbs for the Guardian On the wrist it looks much more like a traditional watch than a smartwatch, about the size of a chunky man’s watch though much lighter and smaller than the Gear Live.
  • (16) For anyone trying to work out the Venn diagram of iconic protest imagery, three tropes will immediately jump to the fore: the quiet dignity of said woman; the battle-hungry paraphernalia of male authority (your shields and batons and chunky uniforms); and the dramatic flip of power that clash presents.
  • (17) Pakistan boasted a supine and notably chunky Shoaib Akhtar.
  • (18) However, learning to play and master any of these games is a significant feat, despite their chunky aesthetics.
  • (19) While the effect had Anderson’s signature androgynous look, and a retro feel, bi-coloured sweaters, cropped shearling jackets and chunky scarves showed him moving gently towards more wearable pieces.
  • (20) The chunky boxers and smooth animation made for impressive fight scenes.

Hunky


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "I have always been of the mind that the idea somehow Google had got through everything and now it was hunky-dory was a bit hopeful.
  • (2) But I’m sorry, Mr Mayor, you have lied to us about enough other things that we are not going to take your word for it that things are just hunky dory in the building behind us.
  • (3) As the prime minister used to do as chancellor when he was conning us that everything was hunky-dory and tickety-boo, we were constantly told how lucky we were to be in Britain, and not one of those other benighted countries such as Germany, where there is no growth.
  • (4) They had a wonderful time at Cannes, were widely feted, and everything seems hunky dory today.
  • (5) Thoughtfully, the owners have filled it with hunky miners who are mostly naked.
  • (6) However, the fact that #SameOldLabour is a trending hashtag in the Twittersphere proves that not all is hunky dory.
  • (7) First there was the interminable meeting of the White Council and Radagast the Brown's bunny sled in An Unexpected Journey, then Tauriel the sassy she-elf and her previously unheralded romance with Kili the hunky dwarf in The Desolation of Smaug.
  • (8) (There's a particularly hunky Jesus by Caravaggio in the Vatican's own collection, if Francis wants to mosey over to the gallery after work one day.)
  • (9) He was who you went to when you needed gothic cheekbones, zanily self-aware camp, and even leftfield hunkiness.
  • (10) Also like Michael, I got as far as "the furniture buying stage" with a hunky Marine recruiter who successfully wooed me with a plastic medallion that read: "The Marines Are Looking for a Few Good Men".
  • (11) In Paul Feig’s version, it’s Kevin: a ditzy blond hired for his hunkiness not his shorthand.
  • (12) But he was as male as a wild animal; hunky, husky, sensual, and incoherent or rhapsodic, depending on which style worked best with the young woman of the moment.
  • (13) If only we had been in recession, then nobody would have come and everything would have been hunky-dory.
  • (14) As Maupin's novel sequence progresses, Mary-Ann's Nancy Drew-style adventures lead her to a less than glorious career in daytime television, while Michael's lead him, via heartbreak and HIV, to (serial) true love and a suitably hunky career in gardening.
  • (15) "But if they think that a smiling Rouhani will get sanctions lifted and everything will be hunky dory without giving something substantial to the west, they may be surprised."
  • (16) Photograph: Joan Marcus The understated adaptation of Robert James Waller’s overblown love story The Bridges of Madison County featured numerous sex scenes between Kelli O’Hara’s winsome farm wife and Steven Pasquale’s hunky photographer.
  • (17) The closest thing to a hunky moron Britain's ever sent us is Robert Pattinson, and I'm pretty sure he's faking it.
  • (18) It began at 9am with a screening of Oliver Stone's new action film, Savages , in which Aaron plays Ben, a sexy Californian dude who produces high-grade marijuana and lives in blissed-out harmony with his equally hunky best buddy, Chon (Taylor Kitsch), an Iraq war vet, and their shared squeeze, O (Blake Lively), who is equally in love with both of them and not averse to the odd skunk-fuelled threesome.
  • (19) As we know from his songs about them on Hunky Dory , Bowie had other formative American influences: Bob Dylan and Andy Warhol.
  • (20) Plath described Hughes as "that big, dark, hunky boy, the only one there huge enough for me".