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unˈsonsy, a. Sc. and north.
[un-1 7.]
1. Luckless, unlucky, ill-omened, uncanny.
1560Rolland Seven Sages 47 The Mairch [= marrow] heirof I sall declair, The quhilk pertenis to ȝour vnsonsie Air. Ibid. 82 That may serve weill sic ane vnsonsie Sanct. 1683G. M[eriton] Yorks. Dial. (1684) 71 You are unsawncy, I think by my life. 1728Ramsay Anacreontic on Love 32 He leugh, and with unsonsy jest, Cry'd,..Did not my arrow flie right smart? 1771Foote Maid of B. ii, My father was so unsaunzy as to gang out with Charley in the forty-five. 1814Scott Wav. lxvii, At these unsonsy hours the glen has a bad name. 1897W. Beatty Secretar xiv. 105 As unsonsy a place as I could have chanced on.
2. Unhandsome, plain.
1894Crockett Raiders xxi, I'm nane so unsonsy yet, though I be auld eneuch to be the laddie's mither. |