honky
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- Rhymes: -ɒŋki
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Sense of “factory hand” attested from 1946. Compare hunky, bohunk.
Term of racial abuse attested 1967, most likely from hunky an African-American vernacular shortening of Hungarian.
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honky (plural honkies)
- (North America, racial slur, pejorative) A Caucasian person.
- (US, obsolete) A factory hand or general unskilled worker.
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- “honky” in the Online Etymology Dictionary, Douglas Harper, 2001
