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Hun

  [huhn]
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–noun
1. a member of a nomadic and warlike Asian people who devastated or controlled large parts of eastern and central Europe and who exercised their greatest power under Attila in the 5th century a.d.
2. (often lowercase) a barbarous, destructive person; vandal.
3. Disparaging and Offensive.
a. a German soldier in World War I or II.
b. a German.
Origin:
bef. 900; 1895–1900 for def. 3b; sing. of Huns, OE Hūnas; c. ON Hūnar; akin to LL Hunnī

Related forms:
Hunlike, adjective
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Hun   (hŭn)   
n.  

  1. A member of a nomadic pastoralist people who invaded Europe in the fourth and fifth centuries A.D. and were defeated in 455.

  2. often hun A barbarous or destructive person.

  3. Offensive Slang Used as a disparaging term for a German, especially a German soldier in World War I.


[From Late Latin Hunnī, the Huns, from Turki Hunyü.]
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