honky
Meanings
Plural: honkies
Noun
- (slang) offensive names for a White man
- A white (Caucasian) person.
- A factory hand or general unskilled worker.
Origin / 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.
Synonyms
ang moh, Angrez, balanda, bule, béké, Caucasian, cracker, cumskin, farang, firangi, gora, gringo, gussuk, gweilo, haole, honkey, honkie, honky, hoogie, hoojah, ice monkey, ivory, joganosh, kabloona, laowai, leucoderm, mayo, mayonnaise face, melanin-challenged, migaloo, mlungu, mzungu, ofay, oyinbo, paddy, Pakeha, paleface, pigskin, pinky, roundeye, saltine, snow bunny, toubab, umlungu, vazaha, white, white bread, white devil, white man, whiteface, whitey, wigger, wonderbread, Yankee
Scrabble Score: 15
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