different between unfed vs unked
unfed
English
Etymology
From un- +? fed.
Adjective
unfed (not comparable)
- Not fed.
- (figuratively) Unsupported. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
Translations
Noun
unfed (plural unfeds)
- (biology) A mosquito that has not had a blood meal.
Anagrams
- undef
Welsh
Etymology
un (“one”) +? -fed (“-th”)
Pronunciation
- (North Wales) IPA(key): /???nv?d/
- (South Wales) IPA(key): /??nv?d/
Adjective
unfed (feminine singular unfed, plural unfed, not comparable)
- first (Forms ordinals of compound numbers where the first element is un (“one”).)
Usage notes
- The word unfed (“first”) is used in compound numbers, whereas cyntaf is used elsewhere, for instance, y llawr cyntaf (the first floor), yr unfed llawr ar hugain (the twenty-first floor).
Derived terms
- unfed ar ddeg (“eleventh”)
- unfed ar bymtheg (“sixteenth”)
- unfed ar hugain (“twenty-first”)
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unked
English
Etymology
From un- + ked (an old past participle form of kithe).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?n?k?d/
Adjective
unked (comparative more unked, superlative most unked)
- (Britain, dialect) odd; strange
- 1865, Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters
- On Tuesday afternoon Molly returned home, to the home which was already strange, and what Warwickshire people would call 'unked,' to her. New paint, new paper, new colours; grim servants dressed in their best, and objecting to every change
- 1865, Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters
- (Britain, dialect) ugly
- 1869, Richard Doddridge Blackmore, Lorna Doone Chapter 17
- And there the little stalk of each, which might have been a pear, God willing, had a ring around its base, and sought a chance to drop and die. The others which had not opened comb, but only prepared to do it, were a little better off, but still very brown and unked, and shrivelling in doubt of health, and neither peart nor lusty.
- 1869, Richard Doddridge Blackmore, Lorna Doone Chapter 17
- (Britain, dialect) old
- (Britain, dialect) uncouth
- (Britain, dialect) lonely; dreary; unkard
- March 21, 1790, William Cowper, letter to Mrs. Throckmorton
- Weston is sadly unked without you.
- March 21, 1790, William Cowper, letter to Mrs. Throckmorton
Anagrams
- nuked
unked From the web:
- what unked mean
- what does unked
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