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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Bohunk

1903, U.S. derogatory slang for "lower class immigrant from Central or Eastern Europe," probably from Bohemian + a distortion of Hungarian.

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bohunk

n. 1 (context North America ethnic slur English) An immigrant from Central Europe. 2 (context North America derogatory English) A brawny or coarse person.

Usage examples of "bohunk".

Beanhead of the class of 1926, of whom you may have heard, to represent the Bohunk Agriculture College in the forthcoming debate against Skidoo Academy.

I heard from your letter that the big debate is on between Bohunk and Skidoo, I was thrilled with excitement.

A further note to the riddle of this sphinx was when Tim recently overheard the bohunk Albertsons manager telling his deli wenches to withhold the snack trays if they saw Tiresias at all.

Maybe this rain will wash some of the commonness off my bohunk neighbors.

I had seen this hulking Bohunk or throwback Polack from my study window, busying himself down on the street, always ready to flex his primitive can-do and know-how.

It went straight up as the dago, the hebe, the bohunk, the nigger came down and into it.

World Trade exec and a punk, spike-haired bohunk might carry the same charge.

Sandy Foster, football bohunk extraordinaire, leaned forward and handed them both cold beers, after throwing his own empty through the open T-top.

Where Homer wrote of horses and the tamers of horses, our contemporaries write of trains, automobiles, and the various species of wops and bohunks who control the horsepower.

And the critics who think it very new and splendid to bring bohunks into poetry are equally old-fashioned in their ideas.

What was the date of the squassation of the Bohunk of Planet Teetotal, in local zero-meridian time?

I'll naturally send a heap of wires about two-gun Bohunks as soon as I can make sure you can't gun one another.

But how did his fellow Bohunks uncover his true identity if he started out as one of their own badmen?

It might be as tough for a Bohunk to come up with an American name on short notice as it would be for a scared American to recall some Bohunks are called Attila!

It's an election year, some of the Bohunks are commencing to vote, and the late Zoltan Kun was popular as smallpox.