单词 | hun-hunting |
释义 | > as lemmashun-hunting C1. Objective (chiefly in sense A. 3) with agent nouns, verbal nouns, and participles, as hun-hater, hun-hunting, hun-hating, etc. ΚΠ 1914 Manch. Guardian 25 Sept. 5/6 ‘Hun Hunting’ in the Woods. 1916 Scotsman 5 Oct. 2/2 The ordinary reader, unless he be a rabid Hun-hater, will only conclude that this is but another case where the devil is actually not so black as he is painted. 1917 Viereck's 13 June 313/2 The inmost depths of his Hun-hating heart. 1918 E. P. Dawson Pushing Water iv. 31 While this is our steady job, we have many auxiliary stunts to perform, which afford a little variation to the monotony of Hun-hunting. 1986 P. E. Firchow Death of German Cousin v. 106 Kipling was a vigorous and notorious Hun-hater. 2002 A. Horne Seven Ages of Paris xvi. 343 In 1911, the Kaiser blundered into Morocco, stretching nerves in the Chancelleries of Europe, inciting instant crisis and providing grist to the mill of Paris's Hun-eating nationalist press. 2010 Private Eye 30 Apr. 6/1 Two German workers..had been forced to leave because of the barrage of Hun-bashing abuse from their British colleagues. < as lemmas |
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