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bohunk

[ boh-huhngk ]

noun

Slang.
  1. Extremely Disparaging and Offensive. a contemptuous term used to refer to an unskilled or semiskilled foreign-born laborer, especially from east central or southeastern Europe. Compare hunky 3.
  2. a rough, stupid person.


bohunk

/ ˈəʊˌʌŋ /

noun

  1. offensive.
    a labourer from east or central Europe
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Sensitive Note

This term originally referred to Hungarian immigrants, and later to Czechs, Poles, and other Slavs.
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of bohunk1

1900–05, Americanism; Bo(hemian) + Hung(arian), with devoicing of the g
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of bohunk1

C20: blend of Bo ( hemian ) + Hung ( arian ), with alteration of g to k
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As her love interest, Ed Westwick has a strapping bohunk quality that is appealing to a degree that is as limited as his acting.

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For the greater part they were of the dark, thick and heavily clumsy type that Toppy had learned to include under the general title of Bohunk; but here and there over the dark, ox-like faces rose the fair head of a tall man of some Northern breed.

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You ain’t a Bohunk fool, so I don’t think you come to hire out for Hell Camp.

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This one is for that Bohunk that’s down there under the rocks.”

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He nodded lightly in response to the greeting from one of the men whom he had doctored; then he was standing before Reivers, and Reivers was looking at him as he had looked at Rosky the day when he broke the Bohunk’s leg.

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