• 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.