hunhint.
/hʌ̃/ U.S. dialect (esp. in Black English).
Used as an intensifier after a question.
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the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > expressing inquiry [interjection]
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1935 Z. N. Hurston Mules & Men i. x. 206 You got mo' poison in yuh than dat snake dat wuz so poison tell he bit de railroad track and killed de train, hunh?
1955 W. Gaddis Recognitions i. iv. 155 Hunh? What do you think of that, hunh?
1970 D. L. Lee in S. Henderson Understanding New Black Poetry (1973) iii. 341 Can u do it, hunh? i say hunh, can u stop moving like a drunk gorilla?
1973 Black World Apr. 60 How about one more..for ol' times, hunh?
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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