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nounA white (Caucasian) person.
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noun(slang) offensive names for a White man
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Origin
- Wolofxonq“red, pink”
- Englishhonky
Sense of “factory hand” attested from 1946. Compare hunky, bohunk. Most likely from hunky (“Hungarian, Slav, eastern European; any white person”), an African-American vernacular shortening of Hungarian. Another possible etymon is Wolof xonq (“red, pink”), a term frequently used in African languages to describe white men. As a term of racial abuse it was popularized by the Black Panther Party starting from 1967, who sought a rebuttal to nigger.
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Polish białas, białaska
- białaswhite person
- białaskawhite person
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