单词 | hun-folk |
释义 | > as lemmasHun-folk Hun-folk n. now rare (a) the Huns (sense A. 1a) collectively; (b) colloquial (derogatory and offensive) Germans collectively. ΚΠ 1870 E. Magnússon & W. Morris tr. Völsunga Saga xxx. 113 No kings shall be as great as we, if so be the King of the Hun-folk may live. 1889 W. Morris Tale House of Wolfings vi. 40 These Welshmen most valiant, and as the rumour runneth bigger-bodied men than the Hun-folk. 1916 ‘Pauline’ Let. 30 Jan. in Lett. from Little Blue Room (1917) 225 I was quite sure it was Nietzsche, or Treitschke, or some other of those Hun-folk with a name like an influenza sneeze. 1923 R. Kipling Irish Guards in Great War I. 343 The Battalion..watched about them..the muddy-faced Hun-folk. < as lemmas |
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