honkie n.
1. (US black) a white person, occas. a light-skinned Latino.
Really the Blues 216: Man, I’m down with it, stickin’ like a honky. | ||
‘Of Liberation’ Black Feeling, Black Heart (1970) 45: Honkies rule the world / Where’s your power Black people. | ||
Tenants (1972) 42: Split, honky, you smell. | ||
Street Players 183: I snatched that honkey off Vickie so hard, I damn near broke his fuckin’ neck. | ||
Fields of Fire (1980) 369: People ain’t never goan’ think niggers an’ honkies are the same. | ||
Breaking Out 318: That’ll show the rest of the honkies out there that the abos aren’t going to be fucked with anymore. | ||
Rat on Fire (1982) 55: What you are is actual honky, except you’re kind of dark for it. But the honkies like that, don’t they. They like havin’ a pet nigger around. | ||
Close Pursuit (1988) 181: Kennedy just got tired of being called a mick, or a honky, or an ofay, or a faggot. | ||
Broken Arse I vi: Hey Honky! Read the fuckin’ sign! No whites! Get your white arse outta this iron room! | ||
Night Dogs 268: Someone [...] shouted ‘Honky peckerwoods’. | ||
Happy Like Murderers 54: There was one black man [...] and he was a character, and called them all ‘honkies’. | ||
Royal Family 358: He’s a honky. I don’t do honkies. | ||
Portable Promised Land (ms.) 44: Wish you could wipe them honkeys off the Earth as you know it? | ||
Londonstani (2007) 126: We din’t call u honky da way u goras used 2 call us Pakis. | ||
(con. 1973) Johnny Porno 212: The honky. Probably cheats on his wife with prostitutes, your boss. | ||
Cherry 67: Drill Sergeant Masters was a perfect honky if ever there were such a thing. |
2. an ice-cream bar.
Juba to Jive. |
3. a phoney person.
Buttons 141: You’re honkies. |
4. a man, usu. derog. and used by any race.
Paco’s Story (1987) 38: Warn’t that honky somethin’? | ||
Llama Parlour 198: I’m gonna find one rich honkey an’ screw him for everythin’ he’s got. |
In derivatives
(US black) any car seen as unfashionable and thus driven only by whites.
Blood Brothers 141: Tha’s [i.e. a Ford Mustang] weak! Tha’s a honkymobile [...] Man, ah wouldn’t be caught dead in nothin but a LD. |
In compounds
(US black) the predominantly white area of a town.
Cold Fire Burning 30: ‘I live over on Prospect Street—the heart of honkytown’. | ||
Inner City Hoodlum 65: Honkietown is where all the motherfuckin’ white dudes stay. |