Another Southerner is defending "chunk."
"You folks from Charlotte need to come to eastern North Carolina more often," writes reader Artemis Kares. "Chunk can be and is used to mean throw."
Kares cited the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, which dates the term to 1825-35.
— verb (used with object) South Midland and Southern U.S.
1. to toss or throw; chuck: chunking pebbles at the barn door.
2. to make or rekindle (a fire) by adding wood, coal, etc., or by stoking (sometimes followed by up).
The dictionary adds that it is perhaps a "nasalized" variant of "to chuck."
As a side note, the Seattle-bred Domester would find it easier to avoid mocking this particular Southernism if it weren't defined by such Snuffy Smith-worthy examples as "chunking pebbles at the barn door."
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Re: Another defense of 'chunk'
dang right we got Ernest T. and he's just plain ornery. Why is it outsiders feel the need to mock us anyway? You can't help it if you don't have the native tongue! Chunkin' rocks at your window all the way from Eastern NC!