unkid
English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]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.