unket
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English[edit]
Adjective[edit]
unket (comparative more unket, superlative most unket)
Anagrams[edit]
Swedish[edit]
Adjective[edit]
unket
Adverb[edit]
unket (not comparable)
Yola[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English unked, past participle of unkythen.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
unket
- shy, strange, uncouth
- Synonym: uncouth
- 1867, “VERSES IN ANSWER TO THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 2, page 100:
- Go gaame abuth Forth, thou unket saalvache.
- Go, make game about Forth, thou uncouth sloven.
References[edit]
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 74
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