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noun (honki, es)
  1. (context, US, racial slur, pejorative) A Caucasian person.
  2. (context, US, obsolete) A factory hand or general unskilled worker.
Etymology: Term of racial abuse attested 1967, most likely from hunky an African-American vernacular shortening of Hungarian. Sense of "factory hand" attested from 1946.


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