honky en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
Etymology
Sense of “factory hand” attested from 1946. Compare hunky, bohunk. Most likely from hunky (“Hungarian, Slav, eastern European; any white person”), an African-American vernacular shortening of Hungarian. Another possible etymon is Wolof xonq (“red, pink”), a term frequently used in African languages to describe white men. As a term of racial abuse it was popularized by the Black Panther Party starting from 1967, who sought a rebuttal to nigger.
Meanings
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(Canada, US, derogatory, ethnic, slur) A white (Caucasian) person.
For quotations using this term, see Citations:honky.
- (US, obsolete) A factory hand or general unskilled worker.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| honkey | alternative | lexicographic | |
| honkie | alternative | lexicographic | |
| honkies | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
honkydom · honkiness · honkitude · honklet
Relateds
Synonyms
cornstarch crusader · wonderbread · whiteboy · abelungu · balanda · umlungu · whiteface · Whitoid · béké · cumskin · ang moh · paddy · Caucasian · gweilo · mlungu · joganosh · toubab · vazaha · kabloona · leucoderm · Yankee · vanilla · ivory · Angrez · laowai · mzungu · white · ofay · European · white bread · hoogie · whitey · honky · white devil · migaloo · Yakubian · pinky · gringo · bule · mayo · mayonnaise face · melanin-challenged · firangi · mayo monkey · snow roach · white man · pigskin · wigger · cracker · saltine · Eurangutan · gussuk · wadjela · haole · gora · roundeye · snow bunny · farang · ice monkey · cac · hoojah · Pakeha · oyinbo · paleface
Translations (2)
pl białaska (white person) · pl białas (white person)