honky

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: noun

(plural honkies) (AmE, slang) an offensive word for a white person, used by black people

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This is a English–English dictionary entry.

Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.

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honkyEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus honkyEnglish›UyghurMain Dictionary honkyEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary

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