honyock
(US, slang) A person (especially a farmer) of relatively recent Central or Eastern European peasant extraction.
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(US, slang) A person (especially a farmer) of relatively recent Central or Eastern European peasant extraction.
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(US, slang, sometimes, pejorative) A person who is foolish, stupid, oafish, wild, impetuous, or stubborn.
: Today "honyock," or farming homesteader, and old-timer live peaceably side by side and each has learned much from the other. The old-timer taught his neighbor the art of stock raising on the range, and the honyock convinced the old-tim…
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