injun

See also: Injun

English

Alternative forms

• Injun

Etymology

1805–15; variant of Indian. Compare Cajun.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɪnd͡ʒən/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɪndʒən
• Hyphenation: in‧jun

Noun

injun (plural injuns)

1. (US, slang, offensive) A Native American.
   • 1995, Pocahontas, spoken by John Smith:

     We'll kill ourselves an injun, and maybe two or three!

   • 1999, “What Do You Want Me to Say?”, in Emergency & I, performed by the Dismemberment Plan:

     You want a problem, well I guess we got one now / I really don't know how / There's injuns over every goddamn hill

   • 2024 February 2, Ellen E. Jones, “Beyond the pale: where are all the films about ‘whiteness’?”, in The Guardian‎^[1], →ISSN:

     Instead of grudgingly admitting the “Injuns” weren’t so bad after all, it actually explores the conflicted culpability of individual white Americans.

Derived terms

• honest injun

Translations

slang for Native American

• Bulgarian: индианец m (indianec)
• Finnish: inkkari (fi)