You honky!!

Helen what is all this about scotch??????? We all know that scotch is a drink. Did you mean Scots???

yours, Jon.

 

Oh dear! I'm so sorry! You are right. What a stupid mistake. I'll correct it right now!

It's me and my English, you see....

 

Thankyou Helen, you are so understanding.

yours, Jon.

 

Now if the word "hunky" has evolved to mean other things than it was meant before, I stand corrected. But since none of you quoted any dictionary definitions heretofore, we may be talking about apples and oranges.

 

hunk n. 1. A large piece cut off a (hunk of bread); b. a thick or clumsy piece; 2. colloq. a. a very large person; b. esp US a sexually attractive man; hunky adj

The Oxford ENGLISH Dictionary

It is now official.

Cheers,

Jim

 

I wonder if your usage doesn't come from bohunk, which is a disparaging word for a person of central European descent. The "bo" comes from "bohemian" and the "hunk" comes from Hungarian. My husband is half Slovenian, and he has been called a bohunk.

 

So, when Elvis sings "Hunky hunky burning love" what does he really mean?

 

I think he sings a hunk, a hunk of burning love.

Just a guess because that song is a little before my time.

 

Dosent it come from the Blues Brothers? When Aretha Franklin says to her husband the cook, "two white Honkys", one wants two slices of dry white toast, the other Four fried Chickens and a Coke!!!

 

Why are we suprised that people in England speak a different English from thoses in Scotland, Australia, Canada, and the US. You can't even find two US citizens who speak it the same way.

i.e Where I grew up Coke-a-cola is called soda, some places it called soda-pop, and to these heathens in Northern IL it is called pop. I wash my clothes, I know some who warsh their cloths etc.

If we all spoke the same language then we would probably have a one world goverment and you all know what that leads to.

Bill

 

Here is more confusion.

In scotland there are variations of the language from one part to another.
e.g. In the N.E. of Scotland there are words we have completely different meanings for. A girl is known as a Cwain( not sure of spelling) and a boy is known as a loon. In addition there is a tendency sometimes to put an ee sound on the end of words. There for we end up talking about the looney's without it intended to be offensive.
this part of scotland,Lochgelly, of course, does not do that.

yours, Jon.

[ January 02, 2003, 12:35 PM: Message edited by: jonmagee ]

 

There is a reciprocal problem for the ladies of course. If I was visiting in Scotland it would not be offensive to say that the hostess is very homely, because I am saying she has made me feel at home. I would not dare say that to any of you American ladies, would I.

yours, Jon.

 

I think I get all of Abiyah's little essay. I was stumped on two items: fetching young thing and shuck that tude,,,,which I assume has to do with getting rid of an attitude,,,,,,,,oh,, fetching in England means attractive....

There are about 17 different dialects in England, and we can usually tell where someone lives by those dialects.

If one's wife makes a blunder, she might be called a silly cow,,,and no woman takes offence to that.......one's regular girlfriend is a bird.

Cheers,

Jim

 

Honky is used sometimes as a deragotory comment. I think it came about in response to some of the names that white people have called black people over the years. I have one really good black friend who calls me a honky or cracker, and I call him a *nigga*. He's the only fella I do it with tho. It's like an unspoken agreement that we have with eachother that we can do it to the other person. I wouldn't walk up to some black dude on the street and say it. With us, it's something that friends do with eachother. I don't care if people call me a honky or a cracker. It don't bother me in the least bit.

 

Abiyah,

I understood your tidbit just perfectly.....

I wonder if this topic would still be going on if the title had the "N" word in it??? Where did that word come from?