Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not sonsy; not buxom, plump, or good-looking. Bringing or boding ill luck; unlucky; ill-omened; unpropitious.
  • Also spelled unsonsie, unsoncie.

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

  • adjective Scot. Not soncy (sonsy); not fortunate.

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  • adjective Scotland Not fortunate.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ sonsy

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Examples

  • We looked for our share of the victuals, but they told me old bl -- bl "---- Again he hesitated, evidently afraid that some" unsonsy "thing was behind him.

    Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2) John Roby 1821

  • ‘Wha hast thou brought here, thou unsonsy villain, thou?’ said an old woman, apparently in great indignation.

    Waverley 2004

  • 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.

    The Waverley 1877

  • ` ` Wha hast thou brought here, thou unsonsy villain thou? '' said an old woman, apparently in great indignation.

    The Waverley 1877

  • 'Wha hast thou brought here, thou unsonsy villain, thou?' said an old woman, apparently in great indignation.

    Waverley — Complete Walter Scott 1801

  • 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.

    Waverley — Volume 2 Walter Scott 1801

  • 'Wha hast thou brought here, thou unsonsy villain, thou?' said an old woman, apparently in great indignation.

    Waverley Walter Scott 1801

  • 'Wha hast thou brought here, thou unsonsy villain, thou?' said an old woman, apparently in great indignation.

    Waverley — Volume 2 Walter Scott 1801

  • 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.

    Waverley Walter Scott 1801

  • 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.

    Waverley — Complete Walter Scott 1801

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  • The crop's in the barn and he's raunchy -

    The squire wants buxom and paunchy;

    The bony and slight

    Remind him of blight

    Like a season that's dry and unsonsy.

    March 13, 2015