Green’s Dictionary of Slang

German; thus Hunland, Germany.

1916		‘New Church’ Times 29 May (2006) 93/1: His Hunny bosom swathed in last year’s soiled pattern blouse.
1916		Aberdeen Jrnl 2 Sept. 4/4: The Hunnish brutes who ghave ravaged Belgium, destroyed north-eastern France.
1916		Somme-Times 31 July (2006) 115/1: Two or three friends [...] are thinking of [...] settling down immediately they get back from Hunland.
1916		Wipers Times 20 Mar. (2006) 41/1: He did not roar / For Hunnish gore.
1916		Sun (NY) 25 June 46: [headline] Our Own Boys Tell of Hun Atrocities.
1929		(con. 1916) F. Manning Her Privates We (1986) 186: One rumour said that Hun prisoners [...] had admitted that the Germans knew all about the proposed attack.
1944		Sun. Post 9 Jan. 6/4: ‘The fruits of victory,’ Goebbels says, / ‘Are ours.’ Yet no one cares. / Fritz, downcast, and in a daze, / Just murmers — ‘Hunny pears!’.
1945		D. Bolster Roll On My Twelve 7: There’s another big Hun formation on its way.
1953		P. Closterman (trans.) Big Show 62: There are Hun fighters about, look out.
1967		(con. 1940s) M. Dibner Admiral (1968) 20: A Hun bitch.
1977		(con. 1941) R. Beilby Gunner 63: Bloody big Hun bastards built like brick shit-’ouses!
1981		W. Boyd Good Man in Africa 237: ‘It seems to me that it’s only you British they want,’ Muller stated coldly [...] ‘Typical bloody Hun remark,’ yipped Fanshawe .
1992		R. Park Fence Around the Cuckoo 128: The Brigadier [...] wore riding breeches (Hun pants) and boots.
2002		(con. 1914) M. McGrath Silvertown 40: I ain’t gonna eat no Hun meat, Frenchie says.