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honkie
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -??ki
Noun
honkie (plural honkies)
- Alternative spelling of honky
honkie From the web:
honky
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)
- (Canada, US, derogatory, ethnic slur) A white (Caucasian) person.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:white person
- (US, obsolete) A factory hand or general unskilled worker.
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