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Gun Shop Hanyak

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A while back I saw a new gun shop starting up, about 20 miles out a rural road. It was in a very large metal building, and I figured to stop in and scope it out sometime. It happened that I was going to town with the Wife and I pulled in before She had a chance to object, telling Her I'd be back out in ten minutes...

As I went in I saw a great deal of empty space, and about 40 or so black guns on a rack behind the counter, surrounding a single, lonely levergun. Being in the market for a .357 or .44 in a lever, I asked the young fella (about 30) what caliber the lever was chambered for. He asked did I want to see it, and I said no, what was the caliber. He pulled down the lever from the rack, stepped up to the counter, and pointing it directly at my chest, opened and closed the action briskly. I put my index finger on the side of the barrel and moved the offending muzzle away form my chest. Looking over at the older gentleman behind the counter who witnessed this, he had the bridge of his nose pinched between his thumb and finger slowly shaking his head, as I quickly retreated to the exit.

The Wife asked me how was the shop, and I told her it was not really my kind of place. It closed down after only 8-10 months :? A real shame. Later, when I thought about that young fella, the word that came to mind was Hanyak.
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I've had to remind staff, and store customers not to point at me.... :roll: At Cabela's in Lacey, a clerk was showing a used rifle to a customer and dry fired it with the muzzle pointed at me. I snatched it from his hands and we had a lively discussion.

Just curious: I've never heard the term Hanyak used that way.. I know it means Korean Medicine....What else?
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My Dad, a German, used this term and had a nice quarter horse named Hanyak. I would say it is loosely defined as a dummy, unaware of the effects of his actions on others.
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I remember as a youth my father referred to ignorant or less desirable types as "hon-yockers". No doubt just a variation of the term with the same meaning. :)


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The meaning of Hanyak I was taught as a kid is not fit to be repeated in polite company. :?
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Chuck 100 yd wrote:The meaning of Hanyak I was taught as a kid is not fit to be repeated in polite company. :?
who says that we're "polite company"... :)
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If that gun shop idiot had swept me with a muzzle I for sure would NOT have been polite! :evil:
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McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions wrote:honyock (ˈhɑnjɑk) - "n. someone, usually a male, who acts like a peasant; a crude or unsophisticated person; a rustic oaf. (Also a rude or playful term of address.) Steve seems like such a honyock until you get to know him."

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Thanks for the definition, Doc.
My dad used the term also, but thankfully not when speaking of me!
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Pop called me a honyock from time to time as well. Years since I had that term.
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According to my maternal granddad, about 75% of the people in that area born after 1900 were most likely to be either honyocks or bohunkers. I'm not at all sure how he distinguished one from the other..!! Nate
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The term honyocker was the one that I was called by the old Germans that lived in the town I grew up in. There was a lot of information and history that I should have paid a lot more attention to as a child, but I was too busy being a kid. Opportunities lost.

Reading this post made me wander back to those simpler days. Ted Slimigan would mow the neighbor lady's grass and the leaves that fell in the fall and haul them off in his Ranchero. My buddies and I would wait until he was mowing the other direction, run into an area he had already mowed and toss an armful of leaves out. That was the first time I realized that you could put curse words in front of honyocker and it became not such a pleasant term.

For the record, Dad found out and I raked for Ted for two weeks out of the kindness of my heart.
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I'm a little slow on the uptake, but now I remember my Grandfather saying it once. He wouldn't explain what it meant when I asked. :lol:
In the movie "Chicago" the other women called the Hungarian Ballet Dancer "The Honyak" and I never knew why until now....
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Chuck 100 yd wrote:The meaning of Hanyak I was taught as a kid is not fit to be repeated in polite company. :?
who says that we're "polite company"... :)
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Dads quarter horse (Hanyak) would only be ridden by him, no one else could even get close to him. This horse once kicked dad square in the center of the chest and put him in the hospital over night. Only days work I ever saw him miss. Fifteen years later I walked in on him shaving one morning, and he still a had a red horshoe tattooed on his chest. He was plenty tough and it took a third heart attack to get him. He was a first rate huntin buddy and we were big time pals.
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Never heard the term before also. Wasn't lookin' to learn anything new today... and look at this... it found me!
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