Meaning of baniak | Babel Free

Definitions

A fool.

derogatory, humorous, slang

Examples

“‘baniak baniak you ole fucker! | you’re tighter than hogan’s goat!’ | baniak only smiles | a perfect smile [footnote] baniak: Ukrainian for cooking pot.”

“What woman could ever consent to be his wife, to lose all her dignity and position with a bunyak like that?””

““What did I keep telling you, Oleh—you baniak, you elephant's arsehole?”

“No . . . no. She doesn't give damn for you. Thinks Ziggy good boy but stupid. A baniak a real woman would leave first chance.”

“Baniak, eh? ¶Literally, a baniak is a pot; in the vernacular, it becomes a “dummy.” Among Ukrainians it's used in a self-deprecating context, or, as with Sammy, an endearment. If “the English” used the word, or the malicious “bohunk,” which amounted to calling a Ukrainian a “nigger,” to address us, a fistfight usually resulted. “Baniak, quiet, sshh,” Sammy frowned. “Why you have to be so noisy? How come?””

“As someone said, that even one with a university degree, BA, could be called “Baniak”, or an empty pot, if that individual isolated himself from the community to which he naturally belonged.”

“God. What a Banyak . . .”

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