What is Bonacker?
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The early settlers of the hamlet of springs. Springs is located in what is now commonly referred to as "The Hamptons." Although a local would never utter those words.
A bonacker used to represent a group of hard working simple people who did what they could to support their families and get by in the early years of this country. Since then however the descendents of the bonackes have become a truly distasteful lot.
Common day "bubs" are rednecks. They drive disgusting rusty old trucks that make a lot of noise, the majority of them have no intentions on bettering themselves at all and will remain in this town forever drinking and getting into bar fights and getting arrested. Bonackers are rude and generally have parents that just let them run wild. Although we can't completely blame them because allot of them resulted from some form of inbreeding stemming from the 5 main families. I'd list them but I doubt you care. No one does. Bonackers are useless.
Teacher: He's just another bonacker. Poor kid wont do anything with his life.
Person 1: Anything good in the paper?
Person 2: No, just a bunch of bubs getting arrested.
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2.
The name traditionally refers specifically to the working class families who live in an area called Springs (located in East Hampton, NY), Many of the original Bonac families in Springs were among the very early settlers of the town, having come from England, possibly Kent or Dorchester, Dorset, in the 1600s and 1700s.
The family names associated for generations with the term "Bonacker" include Miller, King, Bennett, and Lester.
For some three hundred years, Bonackers made their living as baymen, fishermen, and farmers. Clams and clamming -- both hardshell and softshell -- were at the heart of Bonac culture and cuisine. Bonac specialties include clam pie, clam fritters, oysters, clam chowder (traditionally, never made with milk, but with tomatoes), bluefish, porgies, blowfish, eel, and blue crabs
Look at his truck! You can tell he is a bonacker.
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