hun

as inbarbarian

Synonyms for hun

noun crude, savage person

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Word Origin & History

Old English, person from a tribe from central Asia that overran Europe in the 4c. and 5c., from Medieval Latin Hunni, apparently ultimately from Turkic Hun-yü, the name of a tribe (they were known in China as Han or Hiong-nu). Figurative sense of "reckless destroyer of beauty" is from 1806. Applied to the German in World War I by their enemies because of stories of atrocities, but the nickname originally was urged on German soldiers bound for China by Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1900, which caused a scandal.

Example Sentences for hun

The invasions of the Hun shook to its centre the western empire.

Incidentally, it kept the Hun from coming out and bombing us.

What made that great bunch of Yankee boys turn back the Hun hordes?

I wish to God I were back there and the hun was still resisting.

If that is theosophy, I will believe it when I am old, fat and a Hun.

The fellow is therefore one-eighth Dane and seven-eighths Hun.

They were all labelled with names, Hun or Hebrew, usually both.

Says the shriek of the Jabberwock beneath my window, 'The Hun is destroyed.

Such was our dear Russia in the midst of her valiant struggle against the Hun!

It was only four months since the Hun was swamping us with his tempestuous might!

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