Why are whites called 'honky'? Is it white funerals that had bagpipes? Whites with cars that honked to get walkers off the road?
2006-09-10 04:29:53 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
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Honky, when used as a pejorative meaning white, was first used in 1967 by black militants within SNCC seeking a rebuttal for the term ******. They settled on a familiar word they felt was disparaging to certain Americans of European descent; hunkie meaning an American of Slavic or Hungarian descent.[1][2]
The word "honky" as a pejorative for caucasians comes from "bohunk" and "hunky". In the early 1900's, these were derogatory terms for Bohemian, Hungarian, and Polish immigrants. According to Robert Hendrickson, author of the Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins, African-American workers in Chicago meat-packing plants picked up the term from white workers and began applying it indiscriminately to all Caucasians.
2006-09-10 04:36:57 · answer #1 · answered by sharkscue 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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Why are whites called 'honky'? Is it white funerals that had bagpipes? Whites with cars that honked to get walkers off the road?
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2016-04-10 02:45:06 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They used to drive to the "Black" part of town to pick up the people who worked for them, say a cleaning lady etc and they would honk their horns from the street on arrival. This was significant because it is polite to go up and knock on the door, and rude to honk the horn so they were labeled as honkys.
2006-09-10 04:33:34 · answer #6 · answered by Be nice, or at least funny 2 · 3⤊ 1⤋
aussies use honky as slang for gumnuts the seed pod from a gum tree
2006-09-10 04:38:04 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
When blacks used to go to church whites used to beep or 'honk' the horns. thuse the name honk'ies
2006-09-10 06:54:19 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
jarrisw is correct..
It is from the Whites honking their horns in the black part of town.
I don't know if it was out of rudeness or because white people, women especially , were concerned about their safety in the poor black high crime parts of town...
2006-09-10 04:37:30 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
no,it's a description of the nasal tone the emits from their voice when many of them speak,as if you don't know.
2006-09-10 04:33:21 · answer #10 · answered by Daddy 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋