Old north West cowboyslang for a failed homestead farmer. Almost as bad as calling a cowboy a sheep herder.Cattle people never 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 hunjaeger or chicken chaser.
The hoonyocker had a reckless tendency to rely on luck since he lacked any talent.