unkid
English
Adjective
unkid (comparative more unkid, superlative most unkid)
- (obsolete) Alternative form of unked (lonely, desolate)
- 1826, “The Motherless Family”, in Christian Gleaner and Domestic Magazine, volume 3, page 159:
- I am come to welcome you home; and I have brought my work to sit a bit with you and keep you company, for you must be sadly unkid, all alone.
- 1859, Ebb and Flow, volume 2:
- To his solitary tea he went, his housekeeper remarking of him in confidence to a neighbour, that "really he do get so unkid like, and strange, that I can't tell what have come to he."
- 1900, Richard Doddridge Blackmore, Clara Vaughan, page 59:
- An unkid place it be for the laikes of you.
- 1934, The Sussex County Magazine, volume 8, page 304:
- Aye, this be an unkid palace at the turn o' the world.
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Anagrams
- nikud