bohunkとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈboʊhʌŋk/

名詞

bohunk (複数形 bohunks)

1. (Canada, 米国用法, ethnic slur) An immigrant from Central Europe, Eastern Europe, or the Balkans, especially one who is regarded as vain, aggressively masculine, and socially unsophisticated.
   • 1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 287:

     I know you're surprised that I live in a Czech neighborhood. But my father-in-law, a smart old Jew, bought investment property in this nice safe Bohunk district.

2. (Canada, 米国用法, derogatory) A brawny or coarse person.

参照

• “bohunk” in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2004.