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unˈcanny, a. Orig. Sc. and north.
Also 6–7 uncannie, 7 unkannie, 8 unkanny.
[un-1 7.]
†1. Mischievous, malicious. Obs.—1
1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scotl. II. 58 Sum now, vncannie sawers, sew sum causes of contentioun betuene the Chanceller and the Gouernour.
2. Careless, incautious.
1638R. Baillie Lett. & Jrnls. (1841) I. 100, I [was]..made hopefull he would not suffer it to be spoiled by the imprudencie of mony uncannie hands which are about it. 1825Brockett N.C. Gloss., Uncanny, giddy, careless, imprudent.
†3. Unreliable, not to be trusted. Obs.
1639R. Baillie Lett. & Jrnls. (1841) I. 211 It was thought meet..to make all, without dinn. march forward, leist his unkannie trewes-men should light on to call [= drive] them up in their rear. 17..Pennecuik Coll. (1787) 36 You're an hawk of an unkanny nest.
4. Of persons: Not quite safe to trust to, or have dealings with, as being associated with supernatural arts or powers.
1773R. Fergusson Poems (1789) II. 8 For this some ca'd him an uncanny wight; The clash gaed round, ‘he had the second sight’. 1815Scott Guy M. liii, I wish she binna uncanny! her words dinna seem to come in God's name, or like other folk's. 1868Nettleship Ess. Browning ii. 68 These gipsies were a queer uncanny folk. 1884J. Gilmour Mongols 241 The Mongols..were inclined to think him uncanny.
b. Partaking of a supernatural character; mysterious, weird, uncomfortably strange or unfamiliar. (Common from c 1850.)
1843Lytton Last Bar. i. vii, If men, gentlemen born, will read uncanny books,..why they must resolve to reap what they sow. 1856Emerson Eng. Traits, Stonehenge, We walked in and out, and took again and again a fresh look at the uncanny stones. 1882M. E. Braddon Mt. Royal II. x. 229 A slate quarry under the cliff—a scene of uncanny grandeur.
c. In comb. uncanny-looking adj.
1861E. A. Beaufort Egypt. Sepul. & Syr. Shr. II. xx. 184 Between the hill of Ophel and the strange, uncanny⁓looking village of Siloam. 1886Corbett Fall of Asgard I. 38 Frightened at her uncanny-looking companion's strange talk.
5. Unpleasantly severe or hard.
1773R. Fergusson Poems (1789) II. 69 Whinstanes..May thole the prancing feet o' naigs, Nor ever fear uncanny hotches Frae clumsy carts or hackney-coaches. 1814Scott Wav. lxvi, I rode whip and spur to fetch the Chevalier..; and an uncanny coup I gat for my pains.
6. Dangerous, unsafe.
1785Poems Buchan Dial. 7 Thus wi' uncanny pranks he fights. 1837Lockhart Scott IV. vii. 217 He said it was uncanny, and would certainly have felt it very uncomfortable, not to welcome the new year in the midst of his family and a few old friends. a1882W. Dickinson Lit. Rem. (1888) 193 (E.D.D.), Times was raderly uncanny than, An' laal better now. |