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honkie

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hon·ky or hon·kie also hon·key  (hôngk, hng-)
n. pl. hon·kies also hon·keys Offensive Slang
Used as a disparaging term for a white person.
[Possibly blend of Wolof honq, red, pink, of light complexion, and hunky1.]
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Noun1.honkie - (slang) offensive names for a White man
honkey, honky, whitey
derogation, disparagement, depreciation - a communication that belittles somebody or something
jargon, lingo, patois, argot, vernacular, slang, cant - a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves); "they don't speak our lingo"
Caucasian, White, White person - a member of the Caucasoid race
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It's hard to sympathize, however, with a work about ghetto life whose apparently irony-free message is that Algerian men beating Algerian women is bad, but Algerian men beating Frenchmen is okay--they're rich honkies, you see.
BY THE SEA BY THE SEA, BY THE BEAUTIFUL SEA by PARKS, GARY / Dance Magazine
One black secretary says that just before the Million Man March, a white manager said to her, "The thought of a million black men marching has a lot of honkies scared.
Government's nine-to-fivers by Waldman, Amy / Washington Monthly
And, Sugar-Ditch if all of this wasn't ruinous enough, you got a legion of young white angels going crazy over you painting their faces tan, over berry black and calling themselves The Sugar-Stomping Honkie Bears, and they are trying to imitate your every turn twist, shake, fling, hop, bop, at breakneck speed.
Free Enterprise by Knowles, Cybele / African American Review
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