Meaning of hunky | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Alternative letter-case form of hunky (“Hungarian, eastern European”).
   alt-of
2. A Hungarian or other eastern European, e.g. a Romanian or a Slav. (Sometimes applied (like honky) to any white person.)
   US, ethnic, slang, slur, uncommon

Examples

“"All hunkies and wops, and no wonder there was seven hundred and fifty of them."”

“He made hunkies and cut ice-cream sandwiches.”

“The night before I had let a hunky called Big John have a dollar's worth of chips in the poker game […]”

“He said, "I'm going to buy this building and turn this into a Nigger bar. I'm going to bar all you fucking hunkies."”

“On the negative side, a hunky was culturally schizophrenic, an inhabitant of crowded and ill-kept rooms and whose clothing was in poor taste, an alcoholic, intrinsically dull and stupid, an offspring of domineering parents, […]”

“Like blacks, who were the only ethnic group below them on the social scale, Eastern Europeans, contemptuously labelled ‘hunkies’, were dismissed as incapable and untrustworthy.”

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