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Does anyone know what a bonnacker is? Frank McCourt used the word either in Angela's Ashes or 'Tis but I cannot find out what it really means. It is a disparaging Irish slang term but that's all I know. About 40 years ago, my grandmother uttered the word and my mother got all upset as if Grandma had said some terrible swear word in front of me.
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huh. that doesn't really fit with this link
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Apparently there is a place in Germany too called Bonnacker. Link Could it have been a family thing. A 'disparaging' word only counting within the family?
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Considering tsuwm's Wiki link it might be that it was considered a disparaging term in Ms. Lindstrom's family because they didn't want to be associated with "working class".
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