Hunnishadj.

1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes I. ii. vii. 59 These Northerne people, scarsely worthie the name of a People, did God vse when the sinnes of the Roman Empire were full, to punish their pride by so base instruments, in Gottish, Vandall, Hunnish, Saxon, Franke, and other names.

1644 J. Milton Areopagitica 3 The barbarick pride of a Hunnish and Norwegian statelines.

1747 Universal Hist. (Dublin rev. ed.) XX. Index sig. H^v Cruelty to the Hunnish princes.

1800 W. Tooke Hist. Russia I. i. 24 Some french authors have pretended to adduce the relics of the hunnish language in the hungarian, lapponian, finnish, and other tongues.

1821 Ld. Byron Marino Faliero (2nd issue) iv. ii. 119 Dyed..With Genoese, Saracen, and Hunnish gore.

1875 Encycl. Brit. III. 62/1 Attila is described as having been of true Hunnish type.

1918 Punch 27 Mar. 207/2 The Hunnish conduct of the German officer who egged on the natives.

1991 T. Pakenham Scramble for Afr. xxxiii. 611 But two months later they let fly by denouncing the ‘Hunnish’ character of German imperialism.

2005 M. C. Ford Sword of Attila (2006) 283 He was preceded by a squadron of Hunnish guards.

1915 Medicine Hat (Alberta) News 25 Aug. 7/3 Slowly there rose beside him a Hunnish loophole; a steel plate, fenced in by many sandbags.

1918 L. Upton Long Fight, Strong Fight (song) in F. G. Vogel World War I Songs (1995) III. 339/2 So shoulder to shoulder We'll break the Hunnish line; We'll push them and drive them Till they're beyond the Rhine.

1918 Domest. Engin. 27 July 115/1 The Hunnish newspapers are slowly beginning to realize the absurdity of their underestimation of American efficiency in the field of battle.

1919 R. W. Chambers In Secret v. 119 [They were] gobbling a trout, blaue gesotten—having gone into the kitchen to show a decent Scotch lassie how to concoct the Hunnish dish.

1940 Sussex County Mag. 14 409/1 There was horrid speculation whether he had been obliterated by a Hunnish bomb.

2000 A. Marrin in J. C. Giblin Cent. that Was 48 [During World War I] saloon keepers removed ‘Hunnish’ pretzels from their free lunch counters.

1914 G. K. Chesterton Barbarism of Berlin iv. 81 I have already referred to the German Emperor's celebrated suggestion that in order to avert the peril of Hunnishness we should all become Huns.

1924 C. J. H. Tolley Mod. Golfer 7 The only piece of Hunnishness we ever encountered at Heidelberg was at the hands of an appalling doctor, who..thought fit to inoculate us against every known disease.

1928 Manch. Guardian Weekly 2 Nov. 350/2 Once give the better England clear evidence that Hunnishness is not the sole attribute of the German spirit, and [etc.].

2006 Spectator (Nexis) 27 May 80 E. J. Dent..would mock the heavy Hunnishness of the German genius via a list of ‘er’ composers Wagner, Bruckner, Mahler, Pfitzner, Schreker encapsulating a history of length, noisiness, inordinate ambition, means over ends, [etc.].