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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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
Then came a period of division and of Hunnish conquests from which China arose refreshed, more rapidly and more completely than Europe was destined to do.
From A Short History of the World by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
Of all the craft and cunning nothing yet knew he, Wherewith about her kinsmen the queen her toils had wound, That not a soul among them came back from Hunnish ground.
From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown
All night the lamentations of the Hunnish women filled the air.
From A History of Germany From the Earliest Times to the Present Day by Bayard Taylor
These Gurjaras appear to have entered India in connexion with the Hunnish invasions.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" by Various
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