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Re: CHAT: SV: Re: CHAT: silly names, prepositions

From:Roger Mills <romilly@...>
Date:Friday, March 23, 2001, 17:05
Adam Walker wrote:

>And "bohunk" becomes all the more insulting when it also happens to be a >local slang term for the posterior as in "Sit your bohunk down and be >quiet!" >
That's one I've NEVER heard. Is it at all current, anywhere? John Cowan wrote
>>"Bohunk" has also been used; presumably the first syllable is >>from "Bohemian", as Bohemians and Hungarians are obviously interchangeable >>(:-)). I don't know for sure, but I suspect that both of these are >>obsolescent.
I heard that in South Dakota as a youth, e.g. from my father's mouth. Czechs and Slovaks were probably our largest immigrant stock, after Swedes and Norwegians, for whom I recall no derogatory terms. (Lawrence Welk, when his rinky-tink polka band was broadcasting out of Yankton SD, was a bohunk, but not after he became famous. So it goes.....)

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