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Honky

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

    "For quotations using this term, see Citations:honky."

  2. 2
    (slang) offensive names for a White man wordnet
  3. 3
    A factory hand or general unskilled worker. US, obsolete

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.

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