Hun

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Hun/hʌn/

▶noun

• 1 a member of a warlike Asiatic nomadic people who invaded and ravaged Europe in the 4th–5th centuries.

• 2 informal, derogatory a German (especially during the First and Second World Wars).

– derivatives
Hunnish adjective.

– origin OE Hūne, Hūnas (pl.), from late L. Hunni, from Gk Hounnoi, of Middle Iranian origin.