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  Hunnish

  adjective

  of or relating to the Huns.
• hunnish
  hunnish

  adjective

  of, relating to, or characteristic of the Huns

Hunnish

American  

[huhn-ish] / ˈhʌn ɪʃ /

adjective

1. of or relating to the Huns.

2. (sometimes lowercase) barbarous; destructive.

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hunnish British  

/ ˈhʌnɪʃ /

adjective

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

2. barbarously destructive; vandalistic

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Other Word Forms

• Hunnishness
  noun
• Hunnishly
  adverb

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Etymology

Origin of Hunnish

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

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Example Sentences

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Hunnish

Then she perceived that it was the Hunnish host coming on in vast numbers.

From Stories and Ballads of the Far Past Translated from the Norse (Icelandic and Faroese) with Introductions and Notes by Nora Kershaw

Old Fritz—just as we intended he should—caught the reflection of the flame through his upturned periscope and, thinking his shells had set us afire, rose gleefully to gloat over his Hunnish handiwork.

From Sea-Hounds by Lewis R. Freeman

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

We will call on the Hunnish people To arm them with spear and with shield.—

From Stories and Ballads of the Far Past Translated from the Norse (Icelandic and Faroese) with Introductions and Notes by Nora Kershaw

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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