honky

== English == === Alternative forms === honkey, honkie === 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. === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -ɒŋki === Noun === honky (plural honkies) (US, Canada, derogatory, ethnic slur) A white (Caucasian) person. Synonyms: see Thesaurus:white person For quotations using this term, see Citations:honky. (US, obsolete) A factory hand or general unskilled worker. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === See also === honky tonk (etymologically unrelated) === References ===