different between unwed vs unked

English

Etymology

From un- +? wed.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?d

Adjective

unwed (not comparable)

1. Not married.

Translations

Noun

unwed (plural unweds)

1. One who is not married; a bachelor or a spinster.
   • 1944, Emily Carr, The House of All Sorts, “Unmarried,”^[1]

     Perhaps the most awkward situation for the inexperienced young landlady was how to deal with “unweds.”

   Should unweds living together receive the same social benefits as married couples?

Translations

Verb

unwed (third-person singular simple present unweds, present participle unwedding, simple past and past participle unwed or unwedded)

1. (transitive) To annul the marriage of.
   • 1918, All the World (volume 39, page 304)

     At last it was determined to unwed the unhappy pair, during the arrangements for which the husband was arrested and put into jail for six months for rioting.

2. (transitive, figuratively) To separate.
   • 2008, Arthur Quiller-Couch, Studies in Literature: Third Series (page 206)

     A singer must be a fool indeed if you do not hear through Sullivan's notes the exact language of any song. Take, for example, the well-known Sentry song in Iolanthe and attempt to unwed the wit of the air from the wit of the thought and words; […]

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)

1. (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

2. (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.

3. (Britain, dialect) old
4. (Britain, dialect) uncouth
5. (Britain, dialect) lonely; dreary; unkard
   • March 21, 1790, William Cowper, letter to Mrs. Throckmorton

     Weston is sadly unked without you.

Anagrams

• nuked