Other forms: chunks
A chunk is a thick solid piece of something. A chunk of cheese, in chunks, a good chunk of the day.
It has spread far beyond food, and a chunk of time or of money is an informal but very common measure. In learning, chunking means grouping small items so they can be held in mind as one.
1nounchunkA thick solid piece of something.
“He cut a big chunk of cheese and ate it with fresh bread.”
chunk is a piece.
CHUNK → as thick as a TRUNK
A piece as thick as a trunk, and about as hard to move on your own.
hooks ontotrunk
Probably a variant of chuck or a form of chump, meaning a short thick block.
Built from
Variant of chuck; or alternatively a diminutive of chump (“chunk; block”) k (compare hunk from hump, etc.). Also compare Dutch schonk.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA