Hyphenation
hon·kyTurkish pronunciation
hôngkiPronunciation
/ˈhôɴɢkē/ /ˈhɔːŋkiː/
Etymology
(noun.) 1967. Term of racial abuse attested 1967, most likely from hunky an African-American vernacular shortening of Hungarian. Sense of "factory hand" attested from 1946.