bohunk

Probably Bohemian + Hungarian. Compare hunk, hunky, honky.

• IPA^(key): /ˈboʊhʌŋk/

bohunk (plural bohunks)

1. (Canada, US, 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, US, derogatory) A brawny or coarse person.

• Katherine Barber, editor (1998), “bohunk”, in The Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Don Mills, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.