Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not laid or placed; not fixed.
- Not allayed; not pacified; not exorcised; not suppressed.
- Not laid out, as a corpse. Nautical, untwisted, as the strands of a rope.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not laid or placed; not fixed.
- adjective rare Not allayed; not pacified; not laid finally to rest.
- adjective rare Not laid out, as a corpse.
- adjective See Laid paper, under
Laid .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective not laid, not placed
- adjective not laid by exorcism
- adjective of a person, slang not having had sexual intercourse
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
unlay .
Etymologies
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Examples
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I am like the lamb of man soon finished, the singer hen suffering the unlaid egg, stupefied by the easy murmuring of twilight.
the wicked daughter Jerry Ratch 2011
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My eyes were sufficiently accustomed to the darkness that she showed as a pale shape in the murk, a premature and unlaid ghost.
Sick Cycle Carousel 2010
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Speaking of noms, how can wit get you unlaid, Nommy?
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Nothing gets you unlaid faster than having a witty comeback for getting complimented on your looks.
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& 4: I meant "unpaid" not unlaid. (sorry, leftie activists -- slip of tounge -- i must have been reviewing the latest WA public education initiatives from pressure groups.)
Sound Politics: A legislative coup to undermine the people's constitutional right of initiative 2007
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One of their challenges last night was to create dishes using some pretty strange items: Grasshoppers, jellyfish, chicken feet, cock's combs, unlaid eggs, stinky tofu, sea cucumber, eel, and 2 other items escaping my memory.
Archive 2009-10-01 Molly Daniels 2009
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That's not to say you can't wander the world as a mendicant, or weigh 400 pounds and happy, or live alone and unlaid...but you won't COMPLAIN about it, will you?
Archive 2008-03-01 Steven Barnes 2008
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That's not to say you can't wander the world as a mendicant, or weigh 400 pounds and happy, or live alone and unlaid...but you won't COMPLAIN about it, will you?
Controlling the Myth Steven Barnes 2008
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They will taunt and tease the audience, but in the end, the perennially unlaid Jackson will do another Spiritual Guide routine.
Archive 2007-01-01 Steven Barnes 2007
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Occasionally we lighted upon land tortoises, which, with their unlaid eggs, make a very agreeable dish.
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