hunks

A crotchety or surly person.

Noun dated, slang

  1. A crotchety or surly person.
    • What of it, if some old hunks of a sea-captain orders me to get a broom and sweep down the decks? What does that indignity amount to, weighed, I mean, in the scales of the New Testament? Do you think the archangel...
    • Now, Bildad, I am sorry to say, had the reputation of being an incorrigible old hunks, and in his sea-going days, a bitter, hard task-master. - 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick:
    • I used to fancy my revolver shooting when I was with the colours, and if I do get a chance I’ll put a shot through the old hunks, if only to prove to you that I’m no liar. - 1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:
  2. A stingy man; a miser.

Origin

Unknown.

Forms

hunkses

Noun form of, plural

  1. plural of hunk

Origin

Inflected forms.