injun

• Injun

1805–15; variant of Indian. Compare Cajun.

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɪnd͡ʒən/
• Rhymes: -ɪndʒən
• Hyphenation: in‧jun

injun (plural injuns)

1. (US, slang, often 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, →ISSN:

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

• honest injun