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• ‘baniak baniak you ole fucker! | you’re tighter than hogan’s goat!’ | baniak only smiles | a perfect smile
• [footnote] baniak: Ukrainian for cooking pot.
• What woman could ever consent to be his wife, to lose all her dignity and position with a bunyak like that?”
• “What did I keep telling you, Oleh—you baniak, you elephant's arsehole?
• No . . . no. She doesn't give damn for you. Thinks Ziggy good boy but stupid. A baniak a real woman would leave first chance.
• Baniak, eh? ¶Literally, a baniak is a pot; in the vernacular, it becomes a “dummy.” Among Ukrainians it's used in a self-deprecating context, or, as with Sammy, an endearment. If “the English” used the word, or the malicious “bohunk,” which amounted to calling a Ukrainian a “nigger,” to address us, a fistfight usually resulted.
• “Baniak, quiet, sshh,” Sammy frowned. “Why you have to be so noisy? How come?”
• As someone said, that even one with a university degree, BA, could be called “Baniak”, or an empty pot, if that individual isolated himself from the community to which he naturally belonged.
• God. What a Banyak . . .