英和和英

語源

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.

発音

• 韻: -ɒŋki

名詞

honky (plural honkies)

1. (US, Canada, derogatory, ethnic slur) A white (Caucasian) person.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:white person

   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:honky.
2. (US, obsolete) A factory hand or general unskilled worker.

派生語

参考

• honky tonk (etymologically unrelated)

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