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huniak

huniak is the alternative form of honyock.

Meaning of honyock

Noun

honyock (plural honyocks)

  1. (US, slang) 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...1938, Unknown FWP Author, A South Dakota Guide, Works Project Administration, Chapter 1, South Dakota Today
  2. (US, derogatory, slang, sometimes) 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.2009, Charles Taylor, Winter from Spring, Xlibris Corporation, page 29
    Synonyms:
    yahoo, oaf, or lout, rube, simpleton, ignoramus, or know-nothing

Forms of huniak

pluralhuniaks

Questions about huniak

What is huniak the alternative form of?
Huniak is the alternative form of honyock.

Words near huniak in the dictionary

  1. Hungs
  2. Hungtse
  3. hungweiping
  4. hungy
  5. hunh
  6. huniak
  7. huniaks
  8. Hunigoderehaa
  9. Huningue
  10. Hunipui
  11. Hunjiang

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