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Word of the Day – Unked

By August 23, 2021Word of the Day

Unked (also unkut) (adj) (rare)

un-kud

Unknown, unfamiliar; strange, unusual. Chiefly English regional (Yorkshire) and Irish English in later use./ Of a place or route: lonely, desolate; bleak; eerie, unsettling.

Middle English; earliest use found in Layamon (fl. 1250), poet. From un- + kid, kud, ked, past participles of kithe.

Example sentences

“These unked mountain routes almost swallowed me up as the weather moved in.”

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