Honky

Honky (also spelled honkie or sometimes honkey) is mainly a derogatory word for white people, predominantly heard in the United States. The first recorded use of honky in this context may date back to 1946, although the use of "" occurred in films well before that time. The exact origins of the word are generally unknown and postulations about the subject vary. The term could also refer to a bar, as in the Dean Martin song Little Old Wine Drinker Me.

Honky may be a variant of hunky, which was a derivative of Bohunk, a slur for Bohemian-Hungarian immigrants in the early 1900s.

Honky may have come from coal miners in Oak Hill, West Virginia. The miners were segregated; blacks in one section, whites in another. Foreigners who could not speak English, mostly from Europe, were separated from both groups into an area known as "Hunk Hill". These male laborers were known as "Hunkies".

Honky may also derive from the term "xonq nopp" which, in the West African language Wolof, literally means "red-eared person" or "white person". The term may have originated with Wolof-speaking people brought to the U.S. It has been used by black Americans as a term of racial abuse for white Caucasians.

Another documented theory, and possible explanation for the origins of the word, is that honky was a nickname black people gave white men (called "johns" or "curb crawlers") who would honk their car horns and wait for prostitutes to come outside in urban areas (such as Harlem and red-light districts) in the early 1910s.

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