adjective
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unfamiliar, strange, or odd
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remarkable or striking
adverb
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very; extremely
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narrow-minded, excessively religious, or self-righteous people
noun
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a novel or remarkable person or thing
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obsolete a stranger
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(plural) news
adjective
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of unco
1375–1425; late Middle English; variant of uncouth
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Then, for unco good measure, they very nearly repeat the routine.
From Time Magazine Archive
Meantime Judy had been handed over to Falconer's unco guid sister Gertrude and was not having a very happy time of it.
From Time Magazine Archive
Personal Jewelry Just as the unco elegant have their gowns and hats, houses and gardens designed to shadow forth their personality, individuality or lack of it as the case may be, so Mme.
From Time Magazine Archive
When they finally found her, unco guidness and her own adolescent fears had almost addled her little pate; it took all of Hilary's affectionate tact to mend matters.
From Time Magazine Archive
"As she came by my good lord's bower, Saw mony black steeds an' brown; I'm feared it be mony unco lords55 Havin' my love from town."
From English and Scottish Ballads (volume 3 of 8) by Various
With joy unfeign'd, brothers and sisters meet, And each for other's weelfare kindly speirs: The social hours, swift-wing'd, unnotic'd fleet: Each tells the uncos that he sees or hears.
From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert
At Norris Geyser Basin there was a perfect chorus of bird music from robins, purple finches, uncos and mountain bluebirds.
From American Big Game in Its Haunts by Various
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