hunty

English

Etymology

Blend of honey +‎ cunt.^[1]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhʌnti/

• Audio (General Australian):

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Noun

hunty (plural hunties)

1. (LGBTQ slang) An irreverent or sarcastic term of endearment.
   • 2014, Brian Olsen, Caitlin Ross and the Commute from Hell, unnumbered page:

     "What? Oh, I...no," Alan replied. "Fine. I'm fine. This is fine."
     "Spit it out, hunty."

   • 2014, W. C. Harris, Slouching Towards Gaytheism: Christianity and Queer Survival in America, State University of New York Press, →ISBN, page 205:

     Gay culture equips its practitioners with a way of reading the world, each other, and themselves (and I do mean reading, hunty).

   • 2015, Yoshe, Crazy in Love 2, Urban Books, LLC (2015), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

     "Excuse me? I thought that you were completely and totally in love with your Seanie Poo! That delicious specimen of a man is for the gods, hunty! Yeeesss!"

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:hunty.

See also

• witch-hunty (etymologically unrelated)

References

1. "Drag 101", Outlook, Volume 18, Issue 8, January 2014, page 16