donsie

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Scots

Alternative forms

donsy

Etymology

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Adjective

donsie

unfortunate, luckless, hapless
- 1787, Robert Burns, 'Address to the Unco Guid'
  Their donsie tricks, their black mistakes, / Their failings and mischances.
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neat, trim
sickly

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