Pronunciations
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/ʌnˈkɛd/
Adjective
odd; strange
Usage- UK usage
- Archaic
- dialectal
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On Tuesday afternoon Molly returned home, to the home which was already strange, and what Warwickshire people would call 'unked,' to her. New paint, new paper, new colours; grim servants dressed in their best, and objecting to every change
Forsooth he misdoubted him that the bow was somewhat unked, and that the lad had had some new dealings with the Dwarf-kin or other strange wights.
ugly
Usage- UK usage
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And there the little stalk of each, which might have been a pear, God willing, had a ring around its base, and sought a chance to drop and die. The others which had not opened comb, but only prepared to do it, were a little better off, but still very brown and unked, and shrivelling in doubt of health, and neither peart nor lusty.
uncouth
Usage- UK usage
- Archaic
- dialectal
lonely; dreary
Usage- UK usage
- Archaic
- dialectal
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March 21, 1790, William Cowper, letter to Mrs. Throckmorton Weston is sadly unked without you.