unked

Adjective

1. odd; strange
   • 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...
   • Forsooth he misdoubted him that the bow was somewhat unked, and that the lad had had some new dealings with the Dwarf-kin or other strange wights. - 1898, William Morris, The Sundering Flood, p. 41:
2. ugly
   • 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...
3. uncouth
4. lonely; dreary
   • March 21, 1790, William Cowper, letter to Mrs. Throckmorton Weston is sadly unked without you.