unked
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- adjective Unusual; odd; strange; ugly; hence, solitary; dangerous.
Examples
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Frank was frightened without knowing why; it was all so "unked," as he would have expressed it, and as he stared about with terrified eyes he seemed to see mysterious forms moving near.
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But a man that's had a deal to do, feels quite unked at first, when he's only got to look and stare about him, and just walk from one room to another, without no employment.
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"It isn't often I like to be fidgetted and followed; but anything's better than being alone in that unked place."
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I am glad you young gents come, for it was getting very unked and queer all alone.
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"Phew!" he said, with a fresh expiration of the breath; "it's a gashly unked place, and the more you look the unkeder it gets, so here goes."
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"I dessay we could find a lot of things here on this side," said Griggs quietly to the boys, who generally kept with him for companion, "but it would be an unked job with shovel and sieve to clear out one of those cells."
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"I hope so, sir, but I feel unked like, and as if something's very wrong."
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After sunrise we shall be able to see better, and have had time to get rid of a nasty unked sort of feeling which rather bothers me just now, though I don't know how it is with you.
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But you know it really is an unked place in there, and wants a deal of getting used to, and I ain't a bit used to it yet.
Note
The word 'unked' comes from 'uncouth'.