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2003-09-23 15:19:35 ET hon·ky or hon·kie also hon·key n. Offensive Slang pl. hon·kies, also hon·keys Used as a disparaging term for a white person. [Possibly blend of Wolof honq, red, pink, of light complexion, and hunky1.] ----------------------------------------------------------- crack·er n. 1. A thin crisp wafer or biscuit, usually made of unsweetened dough. 2. One that cracks, especially: a. A firecracker. b. A small cardboard cylinder covered with decorative paper that holds candy or a party favor and pops when a paper strip is pulled at one or both ends and torn. c. The apparatus used in the cracking of petroleum. d. One who makes unauthorized use of a computer, especially to tamper with data or programs. Offensive. 3. Used as a disparaging term for a poor white person of the rural, especially southeast United States. 4. Used as a disparaging term for a white person. 5. A nickname to designate a poor white in some parts of the Southern United States Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. A Irishman was once asked if he believed in Pookahs, a "paranormal being" often attributed with wise but childish/prankster tendencies or something like a cross between a leprechaun and the Native American perspective of the Coyote (often times being seen as a large white rabbit! Seen "Harvey", boys and girls?). His very bluntly responded to the interviewer "No sir, I cannae say that I do, but if you went and asked a Pookah, I reckon he doesn't believe in me, either." This post doesn't make sense to you? Good, you've just experienced step one in `Guerilla Ontology' (go look that one up yourself). -S |
