What is a hun?

[picklecustard]

I’ve seen this pop up a few times in threads eg ‘the sort of thing huns like’ or ‘that website is full of huns’

What exactly is a hun? Is it just somebody who says ‘hun’ a lot? What things are supposedly liked by huns?

Atilla and his ilk.

On here it refers to women involved in multilevel marketing activities.

Derived from their 'online' activities....e.g. face book posts "you should try it hun, it's amazing" etc.... they are too busy to learn anyone's name.

Live laugh love

*Attila

A Rangers fan

We all must serve our Emperor who guards us from them.

(A man by bearing arms, a girl by bearing sons.)

I thought it was name short for honey as in 'take the rubbish out hun'

MLMers or Netmums users depending on context

Yeah it always makes me think of Mulan

That’s true, I’ve had a few people on Facebook selling forever living and similar products and they do use ‘hun’ a fair bit but in a really false and forced way.

It can also refer to nethuns, an alternative parenting website that semi rhymes with what I just typed.

They're v prone to calling people 'hun' there.

@picklecustard

Yeah it always makes me think of Mulan

That’s true, I’ve had a few people on Facebook selling forever living and similar products and they do use ‘hun’ a fair bit but in a really false and forced way.

Let's get down to business to defeat the huns!

Hun is Honey... haha

The stereotype is: crushed velvet furniture, MLM schemes like Tropic or Scentsy, obsessed with Mrs Hinch, Live Laugh Love decor, etc. There's definitely a class/perceived intelligence angle to it, too.

Honey.

So a hun is literally someone who says hun a lot?
Who may also be a user of netmums and a fan of MLM schemes?

And something completely different in N.Ireland...

I think it’s used in different contexts but generally it refers to a stereotype of a woman who posts on social media with ‘hun’ (inbox me hun xx) - often with connotations of live laugh love/it’s gin o clock! type sentiments.

I'd always thought it was short for honey...

@BadEyeBri

And something completely different in N.Ireland...

Hun/hon obviously is short for honey, when used as a affectionate (or patronising) name for someone. But it's also come to mean a particular stereotype too. It can be both!

@MaxNormal my thoughts exactly 😂

Isn't a "hun" basically the grown up/married version of an Essex Girl?

(sorry to be a raging snob but it's kind of out there, right?)

Ah see I would have said it was the grown up/married version of Fiat 500 girls, if we're going with stereotypes, ha. Are Fiat 500 girls and Essex girls the same?

And huns are married to the grown up version of Dark Fruits lads (which don't have a grown up equivalent...)...

Germans are sometimes called HUN. As in WW2.

tara66 beware the Hun in the sun...