| 释义 |
hunyak U.S.|ˈhʌnjæk|
Also honyock, -er.
[f. Hungarian a. and n. after Polack.]
= hunk n.3 (See also quot. 1941.)
Only in disparaging use.
1911W. P. Dillingham Dict. Races 92 Magyar, Hungarrian Hun, or Hunyak in popular language. 1919S. Lewis Free Air (1924) ix. 94, I could buy out half these Honyockers! 1938‘E. Queen’ Four of Hearts (1939) 17 Tossing away the stockholders' dough like a hunyak on Saturday night. 1941Sat. Even. Post 7 June 29/1 ‘Honyocks’, the Yankee neighbors called them [sc. immigrants from Central Europe]. ‘Honyocker’ came to be..generally applied to any farmer who tries to raise grain and livestock in the high prairies of the Northwest. 1943H. A. Smith Life in Putty Knife Factory xii. 185 Speaking as a pure-bred honyock out of the Middle West. 1957P. Frank Seven Days to Never vii. 201 She cooked a Hungarian goulash better than any he'd tasted at a hunyak table. 1958H. B. Allen in Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. xxx. 8 Honyock..a boorish and uncouth farmer of foreign background. Honyocker (rarely honyock) was applied, on the contrary, to anyone who fenced in the open range. 1965P. De Vries Let me count the Ways xii. 160 It was a kind of protest—the passionate outcry of honyocks everywhere. |