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

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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