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• Hunnish
  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

"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."

From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown

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

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

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

If the Albanian and Hunnish versions could be found, they would be of the greatest linguistic importance.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" by Various

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