| 单词 | at ungain |
| 释义 | > as lemmasat ungain 4. Awkward, inconvenient, troublesome, difficult. †at ungain, inconveniently. ΘΚΠ the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > [adverb] in (earlier on) untimec897 untimelyc1200 out of timea1325 in unseasona1400 importunelyc1425 in an evil (also ill, etc.) hour1490 importunatelya1492 at ungaina1500 untimeously1513 intempestively1548 out of season1548 timeless1586 unseasonably1586 inopportunely1609 unseasonablea1634 unopportunely1651 timelessly1673 unseasonally1941 the world > action or operation > difficulty > types of difficulty > [adjective] > difficult or awkward ungaina1500 ungainful1565 awky1655 awkward1709 embarrassing1778 unked1861 sticky1871 a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. ii. 22 Bot this cors I wold were hid, For som man myght com at vngayn. 1553 tr. S. Gardiner De Vera Obediencia: Oration C iij b Left hande mater is vngayne, and wicked what soo euer proceedeth of the fleshe. 1635 F. Quarles Emblemes i. xiii. 63 How backward! how præposterous is the motion Of our ungaine devotion! 1764 Museum Rusticum 2 84 As they are ungain to empty on the cloth,..they are not much used. 1777 J. Wesley Compend. Nat. Philos. (ed. 3) I. ii. i. § 2. 206 The joints by which they bend are nearly in the middle..and the large bulk which they are to support, makes their flexure ungain. 1782 F. Burney Cecilia V. ix. vi. 123 But, Sir, that was but an ungain business..t'other morning. 1823– in dialect glossaries. 1837 F. Marryat Snarleyyow (ed. 2) I. iii. 28 The ungain temper of his brute companion. 1893 P. H. Emerson On Eng. Lagoons xxxii. 168 Are you all alone in that wherry?..isn't she ongain for the bridges? < as lemmas |
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