Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not laid or placed; not fixed.
  • Not allayed; not pacified; not exorcised; not suppressed.
  • Not laid out, as a corpse. Nautical, untwisted, as the strands of a rope.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Not laid or placed; not fixed.
  • adjective rare Not allayed; not pacified; not laid finally to rest.
  • adjective rare Not laid out, as a corpse.
  • adjective See Laid paper, under Laid.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective not laid, not placed
  • adjective not laid by exorcism
  • adjective of a person, slang not having had sexual intercourse
  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of unlay.

Etymologies

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From un- + laid

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Examples

  • I am like the lamb of man soon finished, the singer hen suffering the unlaid egg, stupefied by the easy murmuring of twilight.

    the wicked daughter Jerry Ratch 2011

  • My eyes were sufficiently accustomed to the darkness that she showed as a pale shape in the murk, a premature and unlaid ghost.

    Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

  • Speaking of noms, how can wit get you unlaid, Nommy?

    JAMES BOND FIGHTS MEXICAN 2007

  • Nothing gets you unlaid faster than having a witty comeback for getting complimented on your looks.

    JAMES BOND FIGHTS MEXICAN 2007

  • & 4: I meant "unpaid" not unlaid. (sorry, leftie activists -- slip of tounge -- i must have been reviewing the latest WA public education initiatives from pressure groups.)

    Sound Politics: A legislative coup to undermine the people's constitutional right of initiative 2007

  • One of their challenges last night was to create dishes using some pretty strange items: Grasshoppers, jellyfish, chicken feet, cock's combs, unlaid eggs, stinky tofu, sea cucumber, eel, and 2 other items escaping my memory.

    Archive 2009-10-01 Molly Daniels 2009

  • That's not to say you can't wander the world as a mendicant, or weigh 400 pounds and happy, or live alone and unlaid...but you won't COMPLAIN about it, will you?

    Archive 2008-03-01 Steven Barnes 2008

  • That's not to say you can't wander the world as a mendicant, or weigh 400 pounds and happy, or live alone and unlaid...but you won't COMPLAIN about it, will you?

    Controlling the Myth Steven Barnes 2008

  • They will taunt and tease the audience, but in the end, the perennially unlaid Jackson will do another Spiritual Guide routine.

    Archive 2007-01-01 Steven Barnes 2007

  • Occasionally we lighted upon land tortoises, which, with their unlaid eggs, make a very agreeable dish.

    Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

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