BOHUNKUS NOUN 1. silly behaviour, nonsense ...1918 obs. rare, originally and chiefly US usage 2. (often derogatory) an eastern or southeastern European, esp. of the working class; a Bohemian; a foreigner ...1924 Amer. dial. 3. a stupid, obnoxious, or worthless person; often used as a term of abuse or a contemptuous form of address ...1933 4. a person's buttocks; the bottom, the backside ...1941 ETYMOLOGY apparently from the title of a comic song and the name of its rustic and unintelligent character, Bohunkus (1870s) FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1918 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...Now look here! Any more shilly-shallying and bohunkus and I fire the both of you. See?..." From: The Saturday Evening Post (Philadelphia) 14 Dec, 1918 in: Suffering Husbands, by Wallace Irwin
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