mill-hunky

Noun

mill hunky (plural mill hunkies)

1. (Pennsylvania, Western, derogatory, ethnic, historical, slur) A blue-collar immigrant steel mill worker, usually of Eastern European heritage.
   • It is sad to hear people refer to themselves as a “dumb hillbilly coal miner”, or “just an ordinary mill-hunky”. Every person who has spent a lifetime contributing to the organization’s growth deserves to have a well-developed attitude toward themselves, regardless of the level of, of education or...1995, Armstrong, William W., “Revitalizing the Work Ethic”, in Catalytic management : success by design, page 100