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unsonsy

American  
[uhn-son-see] / ʌnˈsɒn si /

adjective

British Dialect.

  1. bringing or boding ill luck.

Etymology

Origin of unsonsy

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

Example Sentences

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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.

From Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since by Scott, Walter, Sir

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

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 12 by Various

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