bohunk

[ boh-huhngk ]

noun

, Slang.

1. Extremely Disparaging and Offensive. a contemptuous term used to refer to an unskilled or semiskilled foreign-born laborer, especially from east central or southeastern Europe. Compare hunky ³.
2. a rough, stupid person.

bohunk

/ ˈbəʊˌhʌŋk /

noun

1. offensive.
   a labourer from east or central Europe

Sensitive Note

This term originally referred to Hungarian immigrants, and later to Czechs, Poles, and other Slavs.

Word History and Origins

Origin of bohunk¹

1900–05, Americanism; Bo(hemian) + Hung(arian), with devoicing of the g

Word History and Origins

Origin of bohunk¹

C20: blend of Bo ( hemian ) + Hung ( arian ), with alteration of g to k

Example Sentences

As her love interest, Ed Westwick has a strapping bohunk quality that is appealing to a degree that is as limited as his acting.

From Salon

For the greater part they were of the dark, thick and heavily clumsy type that Toppy had learned to include under the general title of Bohunk; but here and there over the dark, ox-like faces rose the fair head of a tall man of some Northern breed.

From Project Gutenberg

You ain’t a Bohunk fool, so I don’t think you come to hire out for Hell Camp.

From Project Gutenberg

This one is for that Bohunk that’s down there under the rocks.”

From Project Gutenberg

He nodded lightly in response to the greeting from one of the men whom he had doctored; then he was standing before Reivers, and Reivers was looking at him as he had looked at Rosky the day when he broke the Bohunk’s leg.

From Project Gutenberg