Talk:hunky

RFM discussion: February 2021
The ethnic slur. The entries seem to be saying the same thing but they differ on the number of sense lines, the racism qualifier, etc. Equinox ◑ 22:22, 6 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Aside from the duplication, should the dated label be applied? The one quotation is about the early 20th century.  Vox Sciurorum (talk) 22:27, 6 February 2021 (UTC)


 * I merged the entries on hunky; checking Ngrams for the plurals (to avoid hits for the unrelated adjective), it seems hunkies is [//books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=hunkies%2C%28hunkeys%2A50%29&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=26&smoothing=9&direct_url=t1%3B%2Chunkies%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2C%28hunkeys%20%2A%2050%29%3B%2Cc0 nearly 50 times] more common, although it's impossible to be sure how much of that is hunky and how much is hunkie.
 * The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang, with four citations, says this is also a derogatory term for any white person, like honky. However, demonstrates that in the same kind of citations as Routledge offers (which do suggest it sometimes means any white person), it often still has its a specific meaning; this leads me to suppose it's one imprecise term that can be applied with varying degrees of concern for precision, rather than two senses. But what do you think, would it be better to split "synonym of honky: any white person" off as a separate sense?
 * I put "now uncommon", which seems to be true; change to "dated" or something else if you like. I left "ethnic slur" although I considered whether to change it to "derogatory". - -sche (discuss) 06:30, 12 February 2021 (UTC)