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Is honky a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word honky is a Scrabble US word. The word honky is worth 15 points in Scrabble:

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Is honky a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word honky is a Scrabble UK word and has 15 points:

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Is honky a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word honky is a Words With Friends word. The word honky is worth 14 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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5-letter words (1 found)

HONKY,

4-letter words (1 found)

HONK,

3-letter words (8 found)

HON,HOY,KON,NOH,NOY,ONY,YOK,YON,

2-letter words (10 found)

HO,KO,KY,NO,NY,OH,OK,ON,OY,YO,

You can make 20 words from honky according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of honky

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Definitions and meaning of honky

honky

Alternative forms

  • honkey, honkie

Etymology

Sense of “factory hand” attested from 1946. Compare hunky, bohunk.

Most likely from hunky (Hungarian, Slav, eastern European; any white person), an African-American vernacular shortening of Hungarian. Another possible etymon is Wolof xonq (red, pink), a term frequently used in African languages to describe white men..

As a term of racial abuse it was popularized by the Black Panther Party starting from 1967, who sought a rebuttal to nigger.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɒŋki

Noun

honky (plural honkies)

  1. (US, Canada, derogatory, ethnic slur) A white (Caucasian) person.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:white person
    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:honky.
  2. (US, obsolete) A factory hand or general unskilled worker.

Derived terms

  • honkydom
  • honkiness
  • honkitude

Translations

See also

  • honky tonk (etymologically unrelated)

References


Source: wiktionary.org