Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective So unusual as to be surprising; uncanny.
- noun An unusual or amazing person.
- noun A stranger.
- noun News.
- adverb To an excessive degree; remarkably.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Wonderfully; remarkably; very: as, unco glad; unco guid.
- Unknown; strange; unusual. (Child's Ballads, II. 342).
- noun Anything strange or prodigious.
- noun A strange person; a stranger.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Scot. A strange thing or person.
- adverb Prov. Eng. & Scot. In a high degree; to a great extent; greatly; very.
- adjective Scot. Unknown; strange, or foreign; unusual, or surprising; distant in manner; reserved.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective slang, New Zealand, Australia
Uncoordinated . - adjective
Strange ,weird . - adverb Scotland
Very .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb to a remarkable degree or extent
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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There scores on scores of things, many of them unco, that is uncouth, the first meaning of which is unknown, to his eyes, stood huddled together in the dim light.
Sir Gibbie George MacDonald 1864
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N.B. Toddy cheap an 'unco' gude if 'tis his ain mackin.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 370, May 16, 1829 Various
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Since taking on responsibility for the legacy in the wake of criticism that it was unfocused and unco-ordinated, Ford and OPLC chief executive Andrew Altman have addressed complaints that local people would not benefit from the planned new housing, and sought to leave a sporting heritage in the park.
London 2012: Boris Johnson unveils housing plan for Olympic park Owen Gibson 2010
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So annually I dig them out and try to reinsert them in the annoyingly unco-operative memory.
Well, it's been a quiet week here at The Inn. . . . John 2009
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So annually I dig them out and try to reinsert them in the annoyingly unco-operative memory.
Well, it's been a quiet week here at The Inn. . . . John 2009
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Makes us all either schizo or pathetic unco-operative ego junkies!
Match.com Success Rates published. « The Paradigm Shift 2009
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Remeber that this current school board has worked with the two above and know how unco-operative they are as they have not been forthright in giving the information they have asked for and answeres to questions and have put this current school board in a bad postion one to many times and trying to make it look like the current school boards fault.
East Aurora School District 131 Board Transformation Continues with Carol Farnum's Resignation 2009
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Scientists at Pirbright found their cows were unco-operative with attempts to poison them with cattle feed cakes containing infections or ground glass dropped from the air.
Files reveal Britain's secret biological weapons trials in second world war 2010
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When we study language, we are unco vering in part what makes us human, getting a peek at the very nature of human nature.
Lost in Translation Lera Boroditsky 2010
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Ever since he's been dodging bricks, stones, and rotten tomatoes from the unco guid.
A Little Rock'n'Roll with our Elevenses John 2008
bilby commented on the word unco
Sense is usually negative. Burns' poem 'Address to the Unco Guid' is an attack on the rigidly righteous.
December 28, 2007
lampbane commented on the word unco
Uncoordinated.
October 5, 2008
qms commented on the word unco
At night when the campfire has sunk low,
Then kids hone their skills spinning bunco.
They fill their friends’ ears
With engineered fears,
Weaving tales of the weird and the unco.
April 8, 2014