HONKY

whitey, honky, honkey, honkie

(noun) (slang) offensive names for a White man

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

honky (plural honkies)

(North America, pejorative, racial slur) A Caucasian person.

Synonym: Thesaurus:white person

(US, obsolete) A factory hand or general unskilled worker.

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

22 February 2025

ANALYSIS

(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ‘the father of the bride’ instead of ‘the bride’s father’


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