Hunnish
adjective
of or relating to the Huns.
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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Etymology
Origin of Hunnish
Example Sentences
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Walthari, who has become better beloved by the Hunnish king than were his own sons, also meditates escape, a great longing for fatherland, parents, and friends having seized him.
From Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) by Hermann Schoenfeld
Away on the steppes of eastern Asia various Mongolian tribes, the Hunnish peoples, were domesticating the horse and developing a very wide sweeping habit of seasonal movement between their summer and winter camping places.
From A Short History of the World by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
These are not Roman letters," he angrily murmurs; "neither are they Greek nor Cyrillic, and least of all Hunnish symbols.
From 'Midst the Wild Carpathians by M?r J?kai
Yet merrily the champions prick'd along the strand Downward beside the Danube to reach the Hunnish land.
From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown
When the Hunnish power broke in pieces on the death of Attila, the East Goths recovered their full independence.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" by Various
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