different between unshot vs sunshot

English

Etymology

un- +? shot

Adjective

unshot (not comparable)

1. Not having been shot.

   an unshot target

2. Not discharged or fired off.

   weapons left unshot

Verb

unshot (third-person singular simple present unshots, present participle unshotting, simple past and past participle unshotted)

1. (transitive) To remove the shot from (a gun); to unload.

Anagrams

• Huston, Hutson

English

Etymology

From sun +? shot.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?s?n??t/

Adjective

sunshot (comparative more sunshot, superlative most sunshot)

1. (poetic) Shot through with sunlight.
   • 1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage 1993, p. 91:

     Temple stood in the stand, listening to the birds among the sunshot leaves, listening, looking about.

   • 1972, Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things, McGraw-Hill 1972, p. 41:

     Another revelation of impuberal softness […] was afforded by a photo of her in which she sat in the buff on the grass, combing her sun-shot hair and spreading wide, in false perspective, the lovely legs of a giantess.

Anagrams

• Hustons, Hutsons, unshots