bit vs hunk

bit

noun
  • A portion of something. 

  • A gag of a style similar to a bridle. 

  • A small amount of something. 

  • An excerpt of material making up part of a show, comedy routine, etc. 

  • The bevelled front edge of an axehead along which the cutting edge runs. 

  • A piece of metal placed in a horse's mouth and connected to the reins to direct the animal. 

  • A gun. 

  • The smallest unit of storage in a digital computer, consisting of a binary digit. 

  • A binary digit, generally represented as a 1 or 0. 

  • In the southern and southwestern states, a small silver coin (such as the real) formerly current; commonly, one worth about 12½ cents; also, the sum of 12½ cents. 

  • The cutting iron of a plane. 

  • Any datum that may take on one of exactly two values. 

  • A unit of measure for information entropy. 

  • A prison sentence, especially a short one. 

  • A microbitcoin, or a millionth of a bitcoin (0.000001 BTC). 

  • A unit of currency or coin in the Americas worth a fraction of a Spanish dollar; now specifically, an eighth of a US dollar. 

  • A rotary cutting tool fitted to a drill, used to bore holes. 

  • Fractions of a second. 

  • Somewhat; something, but not very great; also used like jot and whit to express the smallest degree. See also a bit. 

  • The part of a key which enters the lock and acts upon the bolt and tumblers. 

  • Specifically, a small amount of time. 

adj
  • Having been bitten. 

verb
  • To put a bridle upon; to put the bit in the mouth of (a horse). 

  • simple past tense of bite 

hunk

noun
  • A large or dense piece of something. 

  • A honyock. 

  • A goal or base in children's games. 

  • An attractive man, especially one who is muscular. 

  • A record of differences between almost contiguous portions of two files (or other sources of information). Differences that are widely separated by areas which are identical in both files would not be part of a single hunk. Differences that are separated by small regions which are identical in both files may comprise a single hunk. Patches are made up of hunks. 

How often have the words bit and hunk occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )