honky / hunky / hunyak / honyock
Dave Wilton, Monday, July 03, 2006
These are all contemptuous terms for white people, usually used by African Americans.
These terms are originally references to Eastern European immigrants. The origin may a blend of Hun + Polack. From the Chicago Daily Tribune of 14 May 1906:
Read the rest of the article...Hun, Pole, Austrian, Bulgarian, Bohemian—the “Hunkies” of Illinois Steel colloquialism—indifferent to pain of shattered, burned, mangled body, grow frantic as the stretcher bearers near this fortress hospital.
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