Injun

[in-juhn] Origin

In·jun

[in-juhn]
noun Often Offensive.
an American Indian.

Origin:
1805–15; variant of Indian, with assibilated d; compare Cajun
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Injun is always a great word to know.
So is slumgullion. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.
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Injun (ˈɪndʒən)
 
n
1.  (US) an informal or dialect word for (American) Indian
2.  slang (interjection) honest Injun genuinely; really

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Injun
1812, spelling representing Amer.Eng. colloquial pronunciation of Indian (q.v.). Honest Injun as an asseveration of truthfuless first recorded 1876 (in "Tom Sawyer"), perhaps from the notion of assurance extracted from Indians of their lack of duplicity. The term honest Indian is attested from 1676.
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