Old north West cowboy slang for a failed homestead farmer. Almost as bad as calling a cowboy a sheep herder.Cattle peoplenever liked homesteaders and all their barbed wire fences.
1889- This whole town is wall to wall honyockers, bankers and sheep shit.
An undesirable person of questionable repute. The term was first used in the nineteenth century by cattle ranchers as a derisive term for dirt farmers. A corruption of the German hun jaeger or chicken chaser.
The hoonyocker had a reckless tendency to rely on luck since he lacked any talent.