hich is it: honkytonks, honky-tonks, honky tonks, or something else)

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and why?

― anthony easton (anthony), Monday, 20 March 2006 22:22 (twenty years ago)

honky tonk.

or honky-tonking.

I don't know why.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Monday, 20 March 2006 22:24 (twenty years ago)

yr fucking awesome

― anthony easton (anthony), Monday, 20 March 2006 22:37 (twenty years ago)

I believe it is honky-tonk. It looks wrong without a dash or space between the y and the t. Honky Tonk looks alright but since I think it was originally onomatapoeia for the sound of low-grade saloon music emanating from the establishments that got the name it makes more sense to have a dash, since dashes are typically used to clarify the pronunciation in such words.

― TOMBOT, Monday, 20 March 2006 22:54 (twenty years ago)

From m-w.com:

honky-tonk
2 entries found for honky-tonk.
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honky-tonk[1,noun]honky-tonk[2,adjective]

Main Entry: 1hon·ky-tonk
Pronunciation: 'hä[ng]-kE-"tä[ng]k, 'ho[ng]-kE-"to[ng]k
Function: noun
Etymology: origin unknown
1 : a usually tawdry nightclub or dance hall; especially : one that features country music
2 : a district marked by places of cheap entertainment

― Dan (FYI I Searched For "Honky Tonk") Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 20 March 2006 22:56 (twenty years ago)

(hahaha "honkying-tonk")

― Dan (Why Isn't That A Valid Form?) Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 20 March 2006 22:56 (twenty years ago)

Honkytheque?

― TOMBOT, Monday, 20 March 2006 22:59 (twenty years ago)

trace adkins omits the hyphen -

- but i think it looks better with it.

― j blount (papa la bas), Monday, 20 March 2006 23:00 (twenty years ago)

That song is so over the top.

(FWIW my Hank records are also hyphen-less)

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Monday, 20 March 2006 23:07 (twenty years ago)

honkies-tonk

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 20 March 2006 23:07 (twenty years ago)

Honky Tonk is a noun
honky-tonk is an adjective

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 20 March 2006 23:09 (twenty years ago)

what's the verb form?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 20 March 2006 23:10 (twenty years ago)

HONKY TONK IS A WAY OF LIFE BRUTHA

― j blount (papa la bas), Monday, 20 March 2006 23:10 (twenty years ago)

i'm surprised no one's sticking up for the gapless version, which is surely the one Hank Sr. has on the sheet music of his mind when he uses it as a verb: "honkytonkin"

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 20 March 2006 23:17 (twenty years ago)

Honky tonking is a verb form, but otherwise gabbneb makes sense, in that one does hyphenate two-word phrases used as adjectives (see what I did there?).

Looking through my music collection, we have about 30 cases of separate words vs two hyphenations, and one is by Brit Richard Thompson, so we can ignore him (Merle Haggard is the other, or whoever writes the track titles on the album). Even the three times I have Hank's "Honky Tonkin'" it's as separate words each time.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 20 March 2006 23:18 (twenty years ago)

i will stick up for honkytonkin' but isn't it a gerund?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 20 March 2006 23:19 (twenty years ago)

It can be a gerund or a participle in a verb construction, just like just about any word ending '-ing', or having '-ing' as its ending (see what I did there, again?).

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 20 March 2006 23:27 (twenty years ago)

More complete dictionary entry from, uh, the actual dictionary (Webster's 11th):

1 honky-tonk n [origin unknown] (1894) 1: a usu. tawdry nightclub or dance hall; esp: one that features country music 2: a district marked by places of cheap entertainment 3: country music that has a heavy beat and lyrics dealing usu. with vice or misfortune -- honky-tonker n

2 honky-tonk adj (ca. 1920) 1: of, used in, or being a form of ragtime piano playing performed typically on an upright piano 2: marked by or characteristic of honky-tonks

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 20 March 2006 23:33 (twenty years ago)

"We went out to the club last night; Begonia and I ended up honkying-tonk until dawn!"

― Dan (Trying To Ignore "Honky-Tonker" And Failing Miserably) Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 20 March 2006 23:35 (twenty years ago)

hich is it
I thought this was going to be some kind of weird ASK (ALFRED) HI(T)CH(COCK) thread, but the question seemed somewhat outside the man's area of expertise because, although he might show up in the afternoon for the barbecue, he would surely be well in bed by the time the honky-tonkin' started.

― The Day The World Turned Dayglo Redd (Ken L), Monday, 20 March 2006 23:37 (twenty years ago)

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=tonker

― Dan (ROFFLE) Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 20 March 2006 23:37 (twenty years ago)

oh boy.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 20 March 2006 23:48 (twenty years ago)

http://www.discogs.com/image/R-66070-1077856661.jpg

Sadly couldn't find a pic of Camp Clarence.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Monday, 20 March 2006 23:52 (twenty years ago)

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