unsonsy

[uhn-son-see]

adjective

British Dialect.

1. bringing or boding ill luck.

Word History and Origins

Origin of unsonsy¹

First recorded in 1550–60; un- ¹ + sonsy

Example Sentences

He feared to clod it; for it was an unsonsy like beast, and he had a druther that it wasna a canny creature.

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And there is a nest in that stone wall which surrounds the plantation—it is that of the stone-chatter—filthy, unsonsy bird, fit companion for the yellow yeldring, which conceals her treasure 'neath a tuft of grass on the bent, and is trodden under foot.

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But it will be past sunset afore I get back frae the Captain's, and at these unsonsy hours the glen has a bad name—there's something no that canny about auld Janet Gellatley.

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