honyock
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honyock
- /ˈhɑnjɑk/ US
- /ˈhʌnjæk/ US
Where it comes from
* Historically, honyock referred to immigrant homesteaders "stubbornly" farming "hardscrabble" or "hardpan" land considered better suited to livestock ranching.
* The first recorded usage in print appeared before 1860. Usage of the word peaked around 1927, and subsequently fell into relative disuse by 1980.
* Multiple possible origins of this word have been suggested:
** Portmanteau word from Hun/Hungarian and the ethnic slur Polack.
** Derivation of the German compound word "Honigjäger", meaning honey chaser; A reference to pursuing "sweet" opportunities and inevitably getting "stung" by unanticipated but predictable consequences.
** Derivation of the Hungarian adjective "hanyag", and its multiple definitions and negative connotations such as careless, sloppy, slothful and slow.
noun honyocks · honyak · honyocker · honyok · huniak · hunyack
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A person (especially a farmer) of relatively recent Central or Eastern European peasant extraction.
Today "honyock," or farming homesteader, and old-timer live peaceably side by side and each has learned much from the other. The old-timer taught his neighbor the art of stock raising on the range, and the honyock convinced the old-timer that some forage crops could be raised and that it was not goo
Similar: homesteader, hayseed, clodhopper, dirt farmer, yokel, or hick
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A person who is foolish, stupid, oafish, wild, impetuous, or stubborn.
(Father) told me I was a honyock, kissed my mother(...), and gave me a Dutch rub.
Similar: yahoo, oaf, or lout, rube, simpleton, ignoramus, or know-nothing
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