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Meaning of "honkies" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF HONKIES

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HONKIES

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Honkies is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES HONKIES MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Honky

Honky is mainly an exonym for white people, predominantly heard in the United States. The first recorded use of honky in this context may date back to 1946, although the use of "Honky Tonk" occurred in films well before that time. The exact origins of the word are generally unknown and postulations about the subject vary.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HONKIES

hongi
honi soit qui mal y pense
Honiara
honied
honiedly
Honiton
Honiton lace
honk
honker
honkie
honky
honky-tonk
Honolulu
honor
honor guard
honor roll
honor society
honor system
honorability
honorable

WORDS THAT END LIKE HONKIES

blue-skies
chinkies
cookies
darkies
dickies
duckies
flunkies
Great Smokies
huskies
junkies
pinkies
porkies
Rockies
skies
stickies
thickies
to the skies
trackies
walkies
whiskies

Synonyms and antonyms of honkies in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «honkies» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HONKIES

Find out the translation of honkies to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of honkies from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «honkies» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

家庭十分害怕
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Honkies
570 millions of speakers

English

honkies
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

honkies
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

honkies
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

honkies
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

honkies
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

honkie
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

honkies
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Honkie
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

honkies
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

honkies
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

흰둥이
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Honkie
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

honkies
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

honkie
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

हॉन्की
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

honkie
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

honkies
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

honkies
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

honkies
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

honkies
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

honkies
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

honkies
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

honkies
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

honkies
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of honkies

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HONKIES»

The term «honkies» is normally little used and occupies the 124.218 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HONKIES» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «honkies» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «honkies» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about honkies

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HONKIES»

Discover the use of honkies in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to honkies and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Satan's Anvil
Honkies,” you answer. “Well, not all honkies, 'cause these moves won't benefit all honkies, not in the long run. It'll benefit only the rich and corporations, 'cause low level honkies can't see what's happening. They will be the same wage slaves  ...
Obi, 2004
2
Derek Bailey and the Story of Free Improvisation
Saturday night kicked off with Andy Diagram and the Honkies. Their LP How Do We Prevent the Advance of the Desert? - which I purchased on 8 November 1990 , price £4.99 - was a cunning and strident blast of muso-punk protest, sounding ...
Ben Watson, 2004
3
The Bloody Wet
So the four are tired but there's this matter they must discuss. Or so Pvt. Clinton ( Lips) Silvester, seems to think. “Honkies gonna hangs them!” Pvt. Silvester says. “ Sar'ent Washington and them. Hangs them till they daid. Might be they is daid.
T. R. St. George, 2002
4
Lucifer's Hammer
One thing that comet was doing--it was sucking the honkies right out of their houses. Alim's cruises through Brentwood and Bel Air tumed up lots of houses with milk bottles and old newspapers on the porches. He went through in an old pickup ...
Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, 1983
5
Pym: A Novel
“THE SHARPEST AND MOST UNUSUAL STORY I READ LAST YEAR . . . [Mat] Johnson’s satirical vision roves as freely as Kurt Vonnegut’s and is colored with the same sort of passionate humanitarianism.”—Maud Newton, New York Times Magazine ...
Mat Johnson, 2011
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Ashes of Innocence
Honkies, Momma! I want Honkies! Daddy Tom let me get Honkies when I was at his house.” Oh, goodness! \What in the world were Honkies? Did I even want to know? Tom certainly wasn't a racist, so he would never say racially derogative ...
Amanda O'Bryan, 2011
7
Reflections of a Born-Again Pagan Radical
There's two kinds a barbarians: pigs and honkies. Honkies are cattle. Pigs herd ' em. Mosta the bigger pigs are white, but they come in all colors, as do honkies. Sometimes they refer to the smaller pigs, or piglets, as “running dogs”, alluding to  ...
E. Craig Coffin, 2006
8
Stupid Fast
Honkies. We aren't honkies (maybe I am). Me, Peter, and Gus are college kids ( that is, kids of college professors). At least, I used to be. We are a minority! We are oppressed! At least, I used to be. I'm crazy. Gus and I tried to write a horror ...
Geoff Herbach, 2011
9
Speak Easy: 52 brilliant ideas for giving stunning speeches
Hello. Honkies. With some trepidation, let's venture into the subject of including slang and/or swear words in your speech... Most reference books are crystal- clear in their advice: leave it out. I differ. Used sparingly and sensibly in most ...
Barry Gibbons, 2004
10
Counting Coup
KNOCK. YOURSELVES. OUT,. HONKIES! “We need booze, and we need to get off the highway,” John said. He was wearing the trooper's hat that had been left in the car; the top of the hat was caved in and wrinkled. John had sat on it when he  ...
Jack Dann, 2002

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HONKIES»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term honkies is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Now Streaming: The Best Modern Romantic Comedies
Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler star as insufferable honkies who meet, hate each other, then decide they love each other because they both like ... «Crave Online, Jul 15»
2
Police Beat: Giant M&M disappears, officer takes bite to the thigh
He took offense when officers tried to search him, allegedly calling them “honkies” and “racist,” and demanding that they treat him like a white ... «River Falls Journal, Jul 15»
3
Nearly 90 artists, music, art demos at Pikes Peak Art & Music Festival
Music starts at noon daily and includes Nouveaux Honkies, Woodshed Red, Ryan Flores, Barkley Ave., Craig Walter and Company and others. «Colorado Springs Gazette, Jul 15»
4
"Are there any Republicans in the house tonight?"
Is that a subtle way of saying that only honkies try to lie their way out of a nasty predicament? KCBS news radio reported on Tuesday of this ... «OpEdNews, Jun 15»
5
Very loud, very fun, very simple
While he's here, the singer-songwriter will also be performing at Stargazers Theatre on Thursday, June 25, joined by the Nouveaux Honkies. «Colorado Springs Independent, Jun 15»
6
Rachel Dolezal is a godsend to pundits!
People of color—a PC way of saying everybody but honkies—don't necessarily know any more about growing up black in America than ... «Chicago Reader, Jun 15»
7
Blame the Teenagers for What Happened in McKinney, Not the Police
The teens say their peaceful, family friendly fun was interrupted by frothing-at-the-mouth racist honkies, but the actual homeowners who ... «TheBlaze.com, Jun 15»
8
Public speaks about Olympia Police shooting
Peter Griffin put it best "Awful lot of honkies in here....." Reply · Like. · 1 · May 27 at 4:40am. Amanda Kern · Top Commenter · Eatonville High ... «KING5.com, May 15»
9
New video shows soldier's final moments before dying in police …
so lets see if uncle sam fights for one of their own like he fought for these honkies,but brain dead negros will keep signing on the dotted line to ... «The Grio, May 15»
10
Chauncey Crandall and the Nouveaux Honkies
Crandall breeds a sound completely his own. His nuances of blues and flavors of country, accented by memories of folk songs, layered with the ... «KKTV 11 News, May 15»

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