hun
nounnounnounattested in dialogue
- //hʌn//
A woman perceived as basic, brash, working class and fond of alcohol.
noun
- 1
slangA woman perceived as basic, brash, working class and fond of alcohol.
Answer: you are a hun – but a high-end hun, one who knows her wine, her music, her interiors and her labels, and whose reluctance to do Dry January, or go vegan makes her such great company, this month and every month.
It’s no wonder she’s become a central figure in “hun culture” – an online subculture that idolises a certain strata of famous working-class British women, while also taking the mick out of her leopard print kettle and weakness for a premixed gin-in-a-tin cocktail.
- 2
slangA woman involved in a multi-level marketing scheme, especially one who pushes it on social media.
This corporate love-bombing can serve a hun well, bagging them new downlines and potentially more money (MLMs are renowned for extremely low pay).
Instead of blaming MLM "huns," we should direct our anger at the companies that are knowingly putting so many people in debt and alienating them from their communities.
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Variant of honinformalAlternative spelling of hon (“affectionate abbreviation of honey”).
So social media has broken even Elon Musk. I’m forced to ask: U OK hun? [title]
Etymology
Clipping of honey with pronunciation spelling.
noun
- 1
A grey partridge.
Etymology
Clipping of Hungarian partridge.
noun
- 1
Variant of hoonAlternative form of hoon (“Indian gold coin”).
Forms
- plural
- huns
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