hunkey

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Vernacular of Hungarian.

Noun

hunkey (plural hunkeys)

  1. (US, pejorative) A Hungarian (or, more generally, eastern European) labourer.
  2. (US) A person of Hungarian or Yugoslav extraction.

References

  • “honky” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2018.
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