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Definition: Honky |
HonkyNoun1. Offensive names for a White man. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: HonkySynonyms: honkey (n), honkie (n), whitey (n). (additional references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | You can take the girl out of the honky tonk, but you can't take the honky tonk out of the girl (Sweet Home Alabama; writing credit: C. Jay Cox) And that my friends is one nerdy honky. (Scrubs; writing credit: Gabrielle Allan; Janae Bakken) George Jefferson is the only black guy I know that calls Abe Lincoln a honky. (All in the Family; writing credit: Johnny Speight; Norman Lear) Robert Roberts, Esquire to you, honky! (My Science Project; writing credit: Jonathan R. Betuel) He's the cutie pie, you're the smartass, you little honky bastard (The Long Goodbye; writing credit: Leigh Brackett) | |
Lyrics | It's the honky tonk women (HONKY TONK WOMAN; performing artist: The Rolling Stones) He can play the honky tonk like anything (Sultans Of Swing; performing artist: Dire Straits) And dance a honky tonk (Black Water; performing artist: Doobie Brothers) He said I dance now at every chance in honky tonks for drinks and tips (Mr. Bojangles; performing artist: Nitty Gritty Dirt Band) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Honky Tonk (1974) | |
Song Titles | Honky Tonk Women (performing artist: The Rolling Stones) | |
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| "Honky" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 94.12% of the time. "Honky" is used about 17 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 94.12% | 16 | 87,710 |
| Noun (proper) | 5.88% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 17 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "honky": honky tonk. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "honky": honky-tonk. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "honky"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Bulgarian | евтино забавление (honky tonk), долнопробна кръчма (dive, honky tonk, jerry shop, pothouse). (various references) | |
Greek | παντοπωλείο (grocer's, grocery, honky tonk), ταβέρνα (eating house, gin mill, honky tonk, rathskeller). (various references) | |
Hungarian | lebuj (honky-tonk, hovel, jerry, jerry-shop, jook-juke joint). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ホルモン療法 (14 March, holocaust, hologram, holograph, holographic, holography, Honda, Honduras, honky-tonk, hormone therapy, horn, horoscope, phon, short-sleeved dress shirt, white, White Day, white gasoline, white gold, White House, white liquor, white meat, white noise, white pepper, white sauce, white space, white tie, whiteboard, white-collar, Whitehall). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ホンキートンク (honky-tonk). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | onkyhay.(various references) | |
Russian | дешевый бар или ночной клуб (honky-tonk). (various references) | |
Swedish | viting (whity). (various references) | |
Turkish | ucuz gece kulübü (honky tonk), batakhane (barrel house, den, den of vice, disorderly house, dive, gambling den, honky tonk, joint). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | quán chui (honky-tonk). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "honky" (pronounced hô"ngkē) |
| 3 | -ng k ē | chunky, clunky, cranky, dinky, junkie, junky, kinky, lanky, donkey, funky, hanky, hunky, inky, monkey, Pinkie, pinky, punky, slinky, spunky, stinky, swanky. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "h-k-n-o-y" | |
-1 letter: honk. | |
-2 letters: hon, hoy, noh, yok, yon. | |
-3 letters: ho, no, oh, on, oy, yo. | |
| Words containing the letters "h-k-n-o-y" | |
+1 letter: honkey. | |
+2 letters: honkeys. | |
+3 letters: hymnbook. | |
+4 letters: chokingly, hokeyness, hymnbooks, kyboshing. | |
+5 letters: cockneyish, johnnycake, lymphokine, shockingly, shylocking. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Bibliography |
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