different between hoaky vs honky

English

Alternative forms

• hokey, hokie, hoky

Etymology

Probably influenced by the spelling of hoax.

Adjective

hoaky (comparative hoakier, superlative hoakiest)

1. Alternative spelling of hokey: phony, as if a hoax; noticeably contrived.
2. Alternative spelling of hokey: corny; ridiculously sentimental.

Quotations

• 1982, Ben Bradlee, The Ambush Murders, page 425:

  "This has got to be the hoakiest thing I ever heard of," Tennant thought at the time.

Anagrams

• OK yah, khoya

English

Alternative forms

• honkey, honkie

Etymology

Sense of “factory hand” attested from 1946. Compare hunky, bohunk.

Term of racial abuse attested 1967, most likely from hunky (“Hungarian, Slav, eastern European; any white person”), an African-American vernacular shortening of Hungarian. Another possible etymon is Wolof honq (“red, pink”), a term frequently used in African languages to describe white men.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??ki

Noun

honky (plural honkies)

1. (Canada, US, derogatory, ethnic slur) A white (Caucasian) person.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:white person

2. (US, obsolete) A factory hand or general unskilled worker.

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