What's the difference between hot and hunky?

Hot


Definition:

  • () of Hight
  • () imp. & p. p. of Hote.
  • (superl.) Having much sensible heat; exciting the feeling of warmth in a great degree; very warm; -- opposed to cold, and exceeding warm in degree; as, a hot stove; hot water or air.
  • (superl.) Characterized by heat, ardor, or animation; easily excited; firely; vehement; passionate; violent; eager.
  • (superl.) Lustful; lewd; lecherous.
  • (superl.) Acrid; biting; pungent; as, hot as mustard.
  • () of Hote
  • () of Hote

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In the bars of Antwerp and the cafes of Bruges, the talk is less of Christmas markets and hot chocolate than of the rising cost of financing a national debt which stands at 100% of annual national income.
  • (2) The analgesic activity of morphine was assessed by the hot-plate technique in the offspring of female CFE rats that had received morphine twice daily on days 5 to 12 of pregnancy.
  • (3) The data indicate that hot flashes may start much earlier and continue far longer than is commonly recognized by physicians or acknowledged in textbooks of gynecology.
  • (4) The phage is also thermostable in water of the hot spring from which this phage was isolated.
  • (5) In short term clinical studies, the beneficial effects of transdermal estradiol on plasma gonadotrophins, maturation of the vaginal epithelium, metabolic parameters of bone resorption and menopausal symptoms (hot flushes, sleep disturbance, genitourinary discomfort and mood alteration) appear to be comparable to those of oral and subcutaneous estrogens, while the undesirable effects of oral estrogens on hepatic metabolism are avoided.
  • (6) "The government should be doing all it can to put the UK at the forefront of this energy revolution not blowing hot and cold on the issue.
  • (7) It took years of prep work to make this sort of Übermensch thing socially acceptable, let alone hot – lots of “legalize it!” and “you are economic supermen!” appeals to the balled-and-entitled toddler-fists of the sociopathic libertechian madding crowd to really get mechanized mass-death neo-fascism taken mainstream .
  • (8) To test the hypothesis that EAA agonists are involved in transmission of nociceptive information in the spinal cord, we tested the effect of various opioid, sigma and phencyclidine compounds on the action of NMDA in the tail-flick, hot-plate and biting and scratching nociceptive tests.
  • (9) Antinociception was studied by measuring tail-flick response to hot (55 degrees C) water.
  • (10) We had hoped to be back in by now but there was a problem with the hot water.
  • (11) The expansion comes hot on the heels of another year of stellar growth in which Primark edged closer to overtaking high street stalwart M&S in sales and profits.
  • (12) A grassed roof, solar panels to provide hot water, a small lake to catch rainwater which is then recycled, timber cladding for insulation ... even the pitch and floodlights are "deliberately positioned below the level of the surrounding terrain in order to reduce noise and light pollution for the neighbouring population".
  • (13) The influence of hot and dry climate and nutritional status on dry eye incidence is discussed.
  • (14) Spoon over the dressing and eat immediately, while the tomatoes are still hot and the bread is crisp.
  • (15) "The rise in those who are self-employed is good news, but the reality is that those who have turned to freelance work in order to pull themselves out of unemployment and those who have decided to work for themselves face a challenging tax maze that could land them in hot water should they get it wrong," says Chas Roy-Chowdhury, head of taxation at the Association of Certified Chartered Accountants.
  • (16) Writhing response was more influenced after systemic administration of drugs while hot plate latencies was not.
  • (17) Illness was also significantly associated with eating lightly cooked eggs (unmatched p = 0.02), but not soft boiled eggs, and precooked hot chicken (matched p = 0.006).
  • (18) Gamma spectra were measured and activities of the detected isotopes were analyzed for 206 high-activity particles (hot particles, HPs) found in northeastern Poland after the Chernobyl accident.
  • (19) A hot spot in the lung emboli was visualized in two cases.
  • (20) Every time we have a negotiation, the bidding process (for the project) slows and postpones things.” Water quality has become a hot-button issue as the Olympics draw closer with little sign of progress in cleaning up the fetid bay, as well as the lagoon system in western Rio that hugs the sites of the Olympic park, the very heart of the games.

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".

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