oncommon

Not too much, lest as Maria said, we should "make de folks up stairs t'ink dere war somethin 'oncommon in de kitchen;" but one or two hymns we would have, so full of spirit and sweetness that often now-a-days they come back to me, and I would give very much to hear the like again.

Daisy 1868

If your parents have been faulty, let the darter be less so; remember that you're young, and the youthful may always hope for better times; that you're more quick-witted than usual, and such gin'rally get the better of difficulties, and that, as for beauty, you're oncommon, which is an advantage with all.

The Deerslayer James Fenimore Cooper 1820

"I wan't never in 'em afore, and wouldn't be now, only my son Dan'el's wife's took oncommon bad, and he thinks I can cure her."

Medoline Selwyn's Work Hattie E. Colter

An 'next, you understand, I was anxious to git a hold of him, so as to be able to pay off that oncommon black score as I had agin him.

The Cryptogram A Novel James De Mille

"He's an oncommon fine fellow, and made your cake dough once before."

Hatchie, the Guardian Slave; or, The Heiress of Bellevue Warren T. Ashton

Course it's natral you shouldn't be over fond of sech, when you've had sech an oncommon tough time.

Lost in the Fog James De Mille

'If that's so,' said he, 'we won't say no more 'bout it; but the next time you do it, don't put a feller in so deep; for I had a oncommon hard scratch turning up again!'

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, April, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

It's oncommon hot, you see, down hereaway on the Mississippi, and I reckon that's the reason that you southern gentlemen _are_ sich an almighty b'ilin 'up people, who take a gougin' to your breakfast as we should a mackerel.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 Various

And then, o 'nights, when Mother's settin' up oncommon late,

The Golden Treasury of American Songs and Lyrics Various

"Now, look here, lad," he said, changing the subject, "but do you know you've got an 'oncommon ac'rate gun in this old weepon?"

The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills John Trotwood Moore