Hunnish
adjective
of or relating to the Huns.
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Hunnish
American
[huhn-ish]
/ ˈhʌn ɪʃ /
adjective
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of or relating to the Huns.
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(sometimes lowercase) barbarous; destructive.
hunnish
British
/ ˈhʌnɪʃ /
adjective
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of, relating to, or characteristic of the Huns
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barbarously destructive; vandalistic
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Possibly the Nordic and Hunnish peoples were still separated from one another by the swamps of Russia and the greater Caspian Sea of that time.
From A Short History of the World by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
I'll tell you what to do; To my good friends go tender my love and service true, And bid them deign ride hither, and taste our Hunnish cheer.
From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown
It was the Hunnish idea of a superb photograph of Army Cooks.
From A Woman's Experience in the Great War by Louise Mack
The German tribes rise in masses and, after a few months, the liberation from the Hunnish yoke is accomplished.
From Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) by Hermann Schoenfeld
A loud, boisterous, barbaric mourning and lamentation arises in the Hunnish camp over the death of the greatest hero and ruler of their race.
From Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) by Hermann Schoenfeld
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