Origin: Western PA / Monongahela Valley area of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
Derivation from "You" and "Hunk" or "Hunky". Referrring to the Eastern European / Bohemian ethnicity (Slovaks, Poles, Hungarians, Russo-Slavic, et al) of the majority of 19th and 20th Century immigrants to work in the steel mills and coal mines. Bohunk is also sometimes used to describe the mixed / general ethnicity. Millhunk refers to one who works or has worked in one of the steel mills or foundries in the Greater Pittsburgh area.
Derivation from "You" and "Hunk" or "Hunky". Referrring to the Eastern European / Bohemian ethnicity (Slovaks, Poles, Hungarians, Russo-Slavic, et al) of the majority of 19th and 20th Century immigrants to work in the steel mills and coal mines. Bohunk is also sometimes used to describe the mixed / general ethnicity. Millhunk refers to one who works or has worked in one of the steel mills or foundries in the Greater Pittsburgh area.
Dickie M: Hey Yunk! You goin' dahntahn or over to Fuzzy's?
Bob K: Naw, goin' with Tuddy to have a few. Yunk - you should come aht too.
Bob K: Naw, goin' with Tuddy to have a few. Yunk - you should come aht too.
by Doc Dickie November 21, 2012