Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (US) an immigrant from central or eastern Europe, e.g. a Hungarian or Pole.

1907–10		in W.P. Dillingham Reports of Immigrant Comm. I 255: Magyar [...] Hungarian, Hun, or Hunyak in popular language.
1916		Red Cloud Chief (Webster Co., Neb) 17 Jan. 3/2: After our Poles and hunyaks git educated an’ discard their hobnailed shoes [...] whose goin’ t’ take th’ kinkas out o’ th’ street car tracks?
1925		G.H. Mullin Adventures of a Scholar Tramp 167: His vocabulary consisted of [...] ‘Hunyak’ and ‘goddamn.’ I take it that he was an unskilled Hungarian laborer.
1927		(con. 1918) J. Stevens Mattock 286: Aw, hell, Novak, you’ll get back with the Hunyoks again and forget I ever lived.
1936		J.T. Farrell World I Never Made 219: There was a blond guy talking with a young fellow who looked like he might be a dago or a hunyock.
1940		S. Lister Mistral Hotel (1951) 229: You and Mr Whitely and the Hunyaks – meaning my other two bosses – can take care of the brandy.

2. (US) an ignorant, inexperienced or unsophisticated person, esp. a rustic, a peasant.

1910		Salt Lake Herald-Republican (UH) 24 Apr. 5/3: They were Honyockers [...] They call the old timers ‘gumbo grabbers’, but we belong to the Honyocker class.
1927		(con. 1917) J. Stevens Mattock 4: The hunyoks never wanted to fight in the first place.
1943		H.A. Smith Life in a Putty Knife Factory (1948) 143: Speaking as a pure-bred hon-yock out of the Middle West, I would like to go on record as an admirer of New York.
1957		H.B. Allen ‘Pejorative Terms for Midwest Farmers’ in AS XXXIII:4 265: [...] honyock [...] honyocker.
1971		Current Sl. V:4 14: Honyok, n. One who shovels manure (derogatory, person who is lazy or out of touch).
1972		R. Kahn Boys of Summer 64: Then he said harshly, ‘Come on, let’s go see the Hunyaks.’ ‘Hunyaks?’ ‘The people you’re down here to write about. The ball players.’.