a member of a nomadic Mongolian people who overran a large part of central and E Europe under Attila during the fourth and fifth cents ad
(often hun) a person who is wantonly destructive or barbarically cruel
(also collectively the Hun) derog a German; esp a German soldier in World War I or II
Hunnish adj
[Old English Hūne via late Latin Hunni (pl) from Greek Hounnoi, of Iranian origin]