Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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

1935		J. O’Hara ‘The Doctor’s Son’ in The Doctor’s Son & Other Stories 22: Mr. Kelly poured [a drink] and handed it to the Hunkie woman. ‘There, y’are, Mary,’ he said. ‘Put hair on your chest’.
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!