honky

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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)

  1. (North America, racial slur, pejorative) A Caucasian person.
  2. (US, obsolete) A factory hand or general unskilled worker.

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  • honky” in the Online Etymology Dictionary, Douglas Harper, 2001
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