bohunk
English edit
Etymology edit
Probably Bohemian + Hungarian. Compare hunk, hunky, honky.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bohunk (plural bohunks)
- (Canada, US, ethnic slur) An immigrant from Central Europe, Eastern Europe, or the Balkans, especially one who is regarded as vain, aggressively masculine, and socially unsophisticated.
- 1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 287:
- I know you're surprised that I live in a Czech neighborhood. But my father-in-law, a smart old Jew, bought investment property in this nice safe Bohunk district.
- (Canada, US, derogatory) A brawny or coarse person.
References edit
- “bohunk” in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2004.