honyock
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A person (especially a farmer) of relatively recent Europe|Central or Europe|Eastern European peasant extraction.
1938, Federal Writers' Project|Unknown FWP Author, ''A South Dakota Guide'', Project Administration|Works Project Administration, Chapter 1, ''South Dakota Today'':
- Today "honyock," or farming homesteader, and old-timer live peaceably side by side and each has learned much from the other. The old-timer taught his neighbor the art of stock raising on the range, and the honyock convinced the old-timer that some forage crops could be raised and that it was not good economics to ship out a carload of cows and at the same time ship in a carload of condensed milk.
A person who is foolish, stupid, oafish, wild, impetuous, or stubborn.
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