unket

unket (comparative more unket, superlative most unket)

1. (UK, dialect) Alternative form of unked

• Knute

unket

1. indefinite neuter singular of unken

unket (not comparable)

1. mustily, fustily, stalely

From Middle English unked, past participle of unkythen.

• IPA^(key): /ʊnˈkɛt/

unket

1. shy, strange, uncouth

   Synonym: uncouth

   • 1867, “VERSES IN ANSWER TO THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 2, page 100:

     Go gaame abuth Forth, thou unket saalvache.

     Go, make game about Forth, thou uncouth sloven.

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 74