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by jbayless last modified 2006-11-30 17:17

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Honyocker - CLICK MEWhat the heck is a "Honyocker"? ...Well, after hours of exhaustive google research, I came up with the following tidbits to try and define the elusive HONYOCKER:
  • In Standard German the word "Huhn-jager" means hen-hunter.
  • In the Czech language a honyocker is hunyak, which comes from hunac and means a shaggy fellow.
  • In the Hungarian dictionary it is spelled Hanyag and hanyak and means negligent, careless, sloppy or forgetful.
  • In the early 1900's the ranchers in Montana did not like the homesteaders (dirt farmers) who broke up the native prairie and called them honyockers, which is a degrading cowboy slang word.
  • One person said the white homesteaders who settled Indian land west of Mobridge, SD were called honyockers.

...and my personal favorite - that which I strive to be:

  • In North Dakota and surrounding states honyocker is often taken to mean a backward, old-fashioned type of rural person.

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