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wrong 'un slang.|ˈrɒŋ(ə)n|
Also occas. in standard form wrong one.
[f. wrong a. + un, 'un2.]
1. Horse-racing. Of a horse: Held in check so as to cause him to lose the race. Also fig.
1889Sporting Times 29 June (Farmer), Isabel and Maudie knew the Turf and all its arts—They had often blewed a dollar on a wrong 'un. 1895Brewer Dict. Phrase & Fable 1315 A Wrong 'un, a horse which has run at any flat-race meeting not recognised by the Jockey Club. 1935H. Spring Rachel Rosing xxv. 301 Hansford had never been known to tip a wrong 'un.
2. A bad, dishonest, or untrustworthy person, a rogue or crook; one who has gone wrong (see wrong adv. 2 b).
1892I. Zangwill Childr. Ghetto I. xi. 243 ‘What! aren't you froom?’ she said... ‘No, I'm a regular wrong 'un,’ he replied. ‘As for phylacteries, I almost forget how to lay them.’ 1896B. L. Farjeon Betrayal J. Fordham iv. 299 It don't make black white, 'cause I'm a wrong 'un. 1902Daily Tel. 11 Feb. 10/7 A welsher can be had up for fraud, and anyone who is known as a wrong one is excluded from the racecourse. 1908A. Bennett Old Wives' Tale iii. ii. 295 She was a tremendous—er—wrong 'un here in the forties. Made a lot of money. 1920D. H. Lawrence Lost Girl vi. 107 The policeman was now convinced the man was a wrong-'un. 1925E. Wallace King by Night xiii. 63, I don't suppose there's a ‘wrong one’ in London that you don't know. 1951L. P. Hartley My Fellow Devils 194 She could not..expect him to confess in so many words that he was a wrong 'un. 1978J. B. Hilton Some run Crooked ii. 15 It seemed quite a hobby with her—Teds, and drop-outs and wrong 'uns.
3. Cricket.
a. A ball that calls for defensive play on the part of the batsman.
b. spec. = googly n.
1897K. S. Ranjitsinhji Jubilee Bk. Cricket iii. 118 Stockwell steadies himself after this, and will not pick another ‘wrong 'un’. 1911E. W. Ballantine in Even. News 18 Dec. 1/3, I see Hordern got Woolley with a ‘wrong 'un’. For the benefit of those who may not grasp what a ‘wrong 'un’ is, it may here be stated that the ‘wrong 'un’ is the ball which breaks the opposite way to that indicated by the bowler's action. 1931Daily Tel. 31 July 17/2 Weir deserved better of fate than to be bowled by Peebles' wrong 'un in the last over of the day. 1956N. Cardus Close of Play 142 These devices were of no use against the mysterious and seemingly illogical spin of the ‘wrong 'un’. 1977World of Cricket Monthly June 42/2 Neil showed who was the boss by repeatedly stepping out and driving Gupte's wrong 'uns to the fence.
4. A counterfeit coin.
1899C. Rook Hooligan Nights iv. 58 Billy the Snide produced a wrong 'un, and bade young Alf plant it at a big house near the Walk. |