Hunnish

American  

[huhn-ish] / ˈhʌn ɪʃ /

adjective

1. of or relating to the Huns.

2. (sometimes lowercase) barbarous; destructive.

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ˈHunnish British  

/ ˈhʌnɪʃ /

adjective

1. of, relating to, or characteristic of the Huns

2. barbarously destructive; vandalistic

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Other Word Forms

• Hunnishly adverb
• Hunnishness noun

Etymology

Origin of Hunnish

First recorded in 1810–20; Hun + -ish ¹

Example Sentences

It is true that the use of glass for windows was only gradually extending itself at the time when Roman civilization sank under the torrent of German and Hunnish barbarism, and that its employment for optical instruments was only known in a rudimentary stage; but for domestic purposes, for architectural decoration and for personal ornaments glass was unquestionably much more used than at the present day.

From Project Gutenberg

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.

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XLI Then took the word Prince Gernot, and in the council spake, "Because you with good reason believe your life at stake In yonder Hunnish kingdoms, must we too Kriemhild shun, And visit not our sister? that sure were wrongly done."

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"Rudeger the noble, methinks, it were but right We should announce we're coming e'en now to Hunnish ground; More pleasantly no tidings in Etzel's ear will sound."

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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.

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