Do you ever think of words you heard, when you were a child, but not anymore? My mom use to call her kids honyocks, there
were 6 of us. But she always said it with
a smile on her face. One who is wild, and/or crazy, is the definition I had in mind; a
noun. I looked it up, to see if I was
right, and found that a honyock, usually a male, is crude, unsophisticated
and acts like a peasant. He is a rustic
oaf. But the definition includes that it is a playful term of address. My memories
were correct then, and mom was just being
playful.
I thought about that word for the 1st time, in a long while,
during cross country practice. I was on
my 3-wheel recumbent (cool trike) I ride, to keep up with my middle school
runners, and so that when I stop, I am automatically sitting down (the safest place for me.) As the kids circled the
park we were in, the word appeared in my brain, out of nowhere.
As soon as I turned to my co-coach, I knew he would be familiar
with the word. He’s a cowboy, from
Eastern Montana (love the guy) and he grew up on a farm.
When I asked him about honyock , he
laughed and said, Honyocker?
I told him I never heard Honyocker
. And quickly added, Honyocker
would mean one who honyocks, and honyack
would be a verb! It’s a noun, Coach!
The word isn’t in Spell Check, and I had to look in a couple on-line
dictionaries. I found it in Dictionary.com, and indicated it came
from their Slang Dictionary.
Even though I checked other on-line Slang Dictionaries, I never did find Honyocker. But, I did find
someone who’s mom use to use it, often, and guess what? She’s from Eastern Montana, too, so I guess
it’s a regional MT thing. Now I have a new word to use, and that's neat, I like new words :)
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