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Hun noun- a German; a person of German descent UK, 1900
As German troops set sail for China on 27th July 1900, Wilhelm II urged them to fight “just as the Huns a thousand years ago”. The name stuck. It was the main pejorative for the enemy in World War 2. - That sonofabitch Joe Asbach is a hun from outside the district. — Robert Campbell, Junkyard Dog, p. 37, 1986
- a Protestant UK: SCOTLAND
- — Michael Munro, The Complete Patter, 1996
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