Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. Slavic.

1910		Butte (MT) Eve. News 24 July 1: The bohunk miner is a low grade foreigner who buys his job from the foreman and pays him for keeping it [DA].
1917		R. Lardner ‘Carmen’ in Gullible’s Travels 20: Don and Genevieve and the yeggs and their lady friends is all out in the country somewheres attendin’ a Bohunk Sokol Verein picnic.
1929		M. Bodenheim Sixty Seconds 37: She’s sweet on Carl Jenowitch, that big bohunk slob.
1936		(con. 1920s) Dos Passos Big Money in USA (1966) 983: Bill turned a square bohunk face towards Charley.
1936		K. Mackenzie Living Rough 264: Six of us staggered into a bohunk section gang’s camp.
1943		C. McCullers Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1986) 21: I’m part nigger and wop and bohunk and chink.
1953		S. Bellow Augie March (1996) 227: His fear in the Bohunk streets was that he would run over a kid.
1988		D. Woodrell Muscle for the Wing 37: Parma, Ohio, a bohunk, polack, et cetera section of Cleveland.

2. mediocre, second-rate.

1994

G. Indiana Rent Boy 42: It’s like everybody saw the same bogus movie about Park Avenue call girls and wants to live up to that corny bohunk vision of elegance.