honyock
名词 n.
美 [ˈhɑnjɑk]
英文释义
名词 n.
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A person (especially a farmer) of relatively recent Central or Eastern European peasant extraction.
— Today "honyock," or farming homesteader, and old-timer live peaceably side by side and each has learned much from the other. The old-timer taught his neighbor the art of stock raising on the range, and the honyock convinced the old-timer that some forage crops could be raised and that it was not good economics to ship out a carload of cows and at the same time ship in a carload of condensed milk.
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A person who is foolish, stupid, oafish, wild, impetuous, or stubborn.
— (Father) told me I was a honyock, kissed my mother(...), and gave me a Dutch rub.
词源
* Historically, honyock referred to immigrant homesteaders "stubbornly" farming "hardscrabble" or "hardpan" land considered better suited to livestock ranching.
* The first recorded usage in print appeared before 1860. Usage of the word peaked around 1927, and subsequently fell into relative disuse by 1980.
* Multiple possible origins of this word have been suggested:
** Portmanteau word from Hun/Hungarian and the ethnic slur Polack.
** Derivation of the German compound word "Honigjäger", meaning honey chaser; A reference to pursuing "sweet" opportunities and inevitably getting "stung" by unanticipated but predictable consequences.
** Derivation of the Hungarian adjective "hanyag", and its multiple definitions and negative connotations such as careless, sloppy, slothful and slow.
* The first recorded usage in print appeared before 1860. Usage of the word peaked around 1927, and subsequently fell into relative disuse by 1980.
* Multiple possible origins of this word have been suggested:
** Portmanteau word from Hun/Hungarian and the ethnic slur Polack.
** Derivation of the German compound word "Honigjäger", meaning honey chaser; A reference to pursuing "sweet" opportunities and inevitably getting "stung" by unanticipated but predictable consequences.
** Derivation of the Hungarian adjective "hanyag", and its multiple definitions and negative connotations such as careless, sloppy, slothful and slow.
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