baniak

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  A fool.
 * 2) * 1981: Andrew Suknaski and Dennis Cooley, In the name of Narid: new poems, Porcupine's Quill, p 114:
 * ‘baniak baniak you ole fucker! | you’re tighter than hogan’s goat!’ | baniak only smiles | a perfect smile
 * [footnote] baniak: Ukrainian for cooking pot.
 * 1) * 1987: Janice Kulyk Keefer, “Unseen, the cuckoo sings at dawn”, in Jars Balan ed., Yarmarok: Ukrainian writing in Canada since the Second World War, Edmonton: CIUS Press, p 103:
 * “What did I keep telling you, Oleh—you baniak, you elephant's arsehole?
 * 1) * 1987: Michael John Nimchuk, “The day my grandad died”, in Jars Balan ed., Yarmarok: Ukrainian writing in Canada since the Second World War, Edmonton: CIUS Press, p 172:
 * No . . . no. She doesn't give damn for you. Thinks Ziggy good boy but stupid. A baniak a real woman would leave first chance.
 * 1) * 1988: Levi Dronyk, “The puck artist”, in Doug Beardsley ed., The rocket, the flower, the hammer, and me, Vancouver: Polestar Books, pp 161:
 * Baniak, eh? ¶Literally, a baniak is a pot; in the vernacular, it becomes a “dummy.” Among Ukrainians it's used in a self-deprecating context, or, as with Sammy, an endearment. If “the English” used the word, or the malicious “bohunk,” which amounted to calling a Ukrainian a “nigger,” to address us, a fistfight usually resulted.
 * “Baniak, quiet, sshh,” Sammy frowned. “Why you have to be so noisy? How come?”
 * “Baniak, quiet, sshh,” Sammy frowned. “Why you have to be so noisy? How come?”

Usage notes
Usually italicized as a foreign term not fully naturalized in English.

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1)  carboy, demijohn

Noun

 * 1)  head