词汇 | honkie |
词源 | honkie; bohunk. Bohunk, a low expression for a Polish- or Hungarian-American, arose at the turn of the century, and is probably a blend of Bohemian and Hungarian (both Poles and Hungarians were called Bohemians). Bohunks were also called hunkies, and black workers in the Chicago meat-packing plants probably pronounced this as honkie, soon applying it as a deri- sive term not just for their Polish and Hungarian co-workers but for all whites. |
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