1891. Fun, 10 June, p. 237. ‘Ah! by Bendigo, I forgot! Grimmy’s hung up!’ ‘What, Grimmy? Never!’
Hungarian, subs. (Old Cant).—1. A hungry man; a rare pecker (q.v.).
1608. Dodsley, Merry Devil of Edmonton [Old Plays, v. 267]. Away, I have knights and colonels at my house, and must tend the hungarians.
1632. Lupton, London [‘Harl. Misc.’], ix., 314. The middle aile [of St. Paul’s] is much frequented at noon with a company of hungarians, not walking so much for recreation as need.
2. (Old Cant).—A freebooter.
1608. Merry Devil of Edmonton [Dodsley, Old Plays, v. 285]. Come, ye Hungarian pilchers, we are once more come under the zona torrida of the forest.
1893. National Observer, ‘Spoliation,’ ix., 357. But, after all, it is only another note in the gamut of spoliation, whereof Mr. Gladstone’s hungarians (a good old word that!) would have the mastery.
Hunk. To be (or get) hunk or all hunk, verb. phr. (American).—1. To hit a mark; to achieve an object; to be safe. Also (2) to scheme. [From Dutch honk = goal or home.]
1847. Darley, Drama in Pokerville, p. 50. I’ll allow you’re just hunk this time.
1893. Detroit Free Press, June 23, ‘He Threatens to go back,’ p. 3. I propose to have some of it, or I’ll get hunk.