Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. a derog. term for white or pertaining to white lifestyle/culture.

1968		N. Giovanni ‘A Revolutionary Tale’ in King Black Short Story Anthol. (1972) 29: I’m sure you heard about Lonnie going into the honkie neighbourhood with his sign.
1972		E. Sanders Family 185: Blatantly appealing to the okie-honk racism in Los Angeles.
1978		H. Selby Jr Requiem for a Dream (1987) 22: Sheeit, yoe honky ass mutha fuckas is weird, jim.
1979		D. Maitland Breaking Out 323: That was like shoving the white man’s honky racist middle-class bourgeois shit right back up his own dinger.
1984		Flame : a Life on the Game 55: A group of black boys started chatting me up, calling me a ‘white honky woman’.
1990		P. Hotz Muzukuru 10: He’d once been a lootie in a honky unit – all our officers were honkies – but he’d made such a drastic balls-up that he’d been sent on to us.
1998		J. Lansdale Rumble Tumble 229: He wasn’t hurt, he’d wipe your honky motherfucker’s shit on the wall.
2006		C. Carr Our Town 90: I got a federal honky license!
2023		F. Bill Back to the Dirt 66: [He] watched the Black man turn back to the pallets, mumbling and grumbling, honky-assed son of a bitch.

2. fake, pseudo, second-rate.

1950		B. Spicer Blues for the Prince (1989) 62: The Prince wasn’t really so strong there. His bass was always a little honky.
1971		J. Mandelkau Buttons 121: A general dislike for me and what I had done seemed to be the backbone of the majority of ‘honky’ Angel groups.
1979		D. Gram Foxes (1980) 38: ‘Asshole Fuckdog Honky Cunt!’ shrieked the dude at her back. ‘Twat!’.
1992		J. Mowry Way Past Cool 9: Everybody just shut the fuck up! [...] Goddam honky show here!