unshorn

unshorn

English

Etymology

un- +‎ shorn

Adjective

unshorn (not comparable)

1. Not shorn.
   • 1648, Robert Herrick, “Corinna’s Going a Maying”, in Hesperides, or The VVorks both Humane & Divine, London: Printed for John Williams, and Francis Eglesfield, […], OCLC 951078816; republished in The Poetical Works of Robert Herrick, London: William Pickering, […], 1825, OCLC 779240046, pages 91–92:

     Get up, get up for shame, the blooming morne / Upon her wings presents the god unshorne. / See how Aurora throwes her faire / Fresh-quilted colours through the aire; / Get up, sweet slug-a-bed, and see / The dew bespangling herbe and tree.

Synonyms

• unsheared

Translations

not shorn

German: ungeschoren (de) Greek: ακούρευτος (el) (akoúreftos) Hindi: अविभाजित (avibhājit) Italian: non tosato (of sheep; of hair) Latin: intonsus

Manx: neuloamrit Russian: неподстриженный (ru) (nepodstrižennyj), нестриженный (nestrižennyj) Scots: roch (of sheep) Spanish: intonso (es) (of person), no esquilado (of sheep), no cortado (of person)