unwiseadj.

Brit.

/(ˌ)ʌnˈwʌɪz/, U.S.

/ˌənˈwaɪz/

Etymology: Old English unwís (un- prefix¹ 1), = North Frisian unwis, -wiss, (Middle) Dutch onwijs, Old Saxon (Middle Low German) unwîs, Old High German unwîs, unwîsi (Middle High German unwîse, German unweise), Old Norse úviss (Middle Swedish and Swedish ovis, Danish and Norwegian uvis), Gothic unweis.

a. Lacking or deficient in (practical) wisdom, discretion, or prudence; indiscreet, imprudent, foolish. Also const. in.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > [adjective]

dizzyc825

unwisec825

redelessOE

unwittyc1000

daftlikec1175

witlessc1175

canga1225

adoted?c1225

cangun?c1225

egedec1225

cangeda1250

foola1250

snepea1250

aerwittec1275

sotlyc1275

unslyc1275

unwitterc1275

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nicec1300

goosishc1374

unskilfulc1374

follyc1380

lewdc1380

mis-feelinga1382

dottlec1390

foltedc1390

peevishc1400

fona1425

fonnishc1425

foliousa1450

foolisha1450

daft?c1450

doitedc1450

dotyc1450

daffish1470

insapientc1470

gucked?a1500

wanwittya1500

furious1526

insipient1528

seelya1529

dawish?1529

foolage1545

momish1546

base-wittedc1547

stultitiousa1549

follifulc1550

senseless1565

mopish1568

fondish1579

unsensiblea1586

fondly1587

dizzardly1594

follial1596

featlessc1598

fopperly1599

gowkeda1605

inept1604

simple1604

anserine1607

foppish1608

silly ass1608

unsage1608

wisdomless1608

fool-beggeda1616

Gotham1621

noddy1645

badot1653

dosser-headed1655

infrunite1657

nonsensicalc1661

slight1663

sappy1670

datelessa1686

noddy-peaked1694

nizy1709

dottled1772

gypit1804

shay-brained1806

folly-stricken1807

fool-like1811

goosy1811

spoony1813

niddle-noddle1821

gumptionless1823

daftish1825

anserous1826

as crazy as a loon1830

spoonish1833

cheese-headed1836

dotty1860

fool-fool1868

noodly1870

dilly1873

gormless1883

daffy1884

monkey-doodle1886

mosy1887

jay1891

pithecanthropic1897

peanut-headed1906

dinlo1907

boob1911

goofy1921

ding-a-ling1935

jerky1944

jerk1947

jerkish1948

pointy-headed1950

doofus1967

twitty1967

twittish1969

nerkish1975

numpty1992

c825 Vesp. Psalter xci. 7 Wer unwis ne oncnaweð & dysig ne ongiteð ða.

971 Blickl. Hom. 89 Ic wæs..unwisum netenum gelic geworden.

c1175 Lamb. Hom. 111 Þet is mildheortnesse þet þe wisa mon mid steore þene unwisan irihleche.

c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 16954 Forr unnwis mann iss blunnt.

?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 60 Hwase wule mei gan in. & lede forð heore asse. þet is hare unwise saule.

c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 469/250 Heo was puyrliche vnwys in sawe and in spelle.

c1315 Shoreham iii. 312 Ich wot hy beþ Vn-wyser þane þe wode.

c1325 Metr. Hom. 110 Thar mai we graithe ensampel take, Unwise felawschip to forsake, And hald us imang wise men.

c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 411 Þis telliþ an opyn blasfemye, þat crist was vnwiss in þis.

1415 T. Hoccleve To Sir J. Oldcastle 77 Thow art vnwys thogh thow thee wys pretende.

c1455 R. Pecock Folewer to Donet 38 [They] holden him þerfore in þat neuer þe vnwiser þan creaturis whiche knowen þe same trouþis.

1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. DDvii^v Saye nat as many an vnwyse persone saithe.

1645 J. Milton Tetrachordon 42 When as he should bee not unwiser then the Serpent.

1660 J. Milton Readie Way Free Commonw. 6 A nation..unwise in thir counsels.

c1700 Short Acc. Scotland 56 The younger and unwiser of the Bishops.

1746 P. Francis tr. Horace in P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Epistles i. v. 22 The grave Disgrace of being thought unwise.

1827 T. Carlyle State Germ. Lit. in Edinb. Rev. Oct. 313 A class of unwise men.

1871 R. Browning Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau 101 What if the event demonstrate her unwise?

in extended use.1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis I. 339 Thus seith the wilde unwise tonge Of hem.1533 J. Gau tr. C. Pedersen Richt Vay 32 Thair onwisz hartis war blyndit.1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus i. i. 2/1 That un-wise science, which..‘By geometric scale Doth take the size of pots of ale’.

b. absol. as singular or plural.

ΚΠ

c825 Vesp. Psalter xiii. 1 Cweð se unwisa in his heortan, nis god.

a1300 Floriz & Bl. 1016 Ac Floris cleppen hire bigon, And he him also unwise [Fr. si fait que fol].

c1315 Shoreham i. 355 Þat fleisch wiþ sleuþe and glotonie..[acombreþ] Þoun-wyse.

1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. ix. 84 Ȝe wyse, soffreþ þe vn-wyse wiþ ow for to libbe.

1484 W. Caxton tr. Subtyl Historyes & Fables Esope i. xvii The vnwyse displeseth there, where as he supposeth to please.

a1542 T. Wyatt Coll. Poems (1969) 93 Tho th'unwise Had not I-sene suche a beest before.

1647 N. Ward Simple Cobler Aggawam 24 He that instructs a foole, may act th' unwise.

1725 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey II. viii. 559 Th' unwise prevail,..And by the Gods decree proud Ilion falls.

1806 H. K. White Let. 25 June in Remains (1807) I. 228 The religion of Jesus Christ is..wisdom to the unwise.

1871 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues I. 367 The opinions of the unwise are evil.

2. Not marked, distinguished, or prompted by (practical) wisdom; characterized by lack of sound judgement; injudicious.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > misjudgement > [adjective]

foolisha1382

misadvisedc1390

unwise1390

indiscreet1413

misdeeming?1471

indigested1587

misjudging1598

unjudicial1599

unjudicious1611

unjudging1612

unjudiciallya1628

injudicious1649

ill-judginga1684

miscalculating1827

foot-shooting1984

1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis I. 166 It is an unwys vengance.

1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. i. 49 Pylgrimis & palmers..Wenten forth in hure way with meny vn-wyse tales.

a1425 tr. Arderne's Treat. Fistula 44 If þe fynger..haue be long vnheled of vnwise cure.

1513 Queen Katherine in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1846) 3rd Ser. I. 153 With my servants unwise demeanur I am noo thing wel contente.

1583 P. Barrough Methode of Phisicke i. xxiv. 31 Ther goeth before this euill [sc. epilepsy] an vnwyse state of the body and mind.

1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III iv. i. 51 Be not tane tardie, by vnwise delaie.

1678 S. Butler Hudibras: Third Pt. iii. iii. 224 This Gambol thou advisest, Is, of all others, the unwisest.

1798 S. Lee Young Lady's Tale in H. Lee Canterbury Tales II. 4 Lady Lettingham exacted one compliance, even her brother thought not unwise.

a1800 W. Cowper tr. Homer Odyssey (ed. 2) xv. 12 It were a deed unwise, To sojourn longer here.

1809 S. T. Coleridge Friend 158 The conduct..was equally unwise in private life and to individuals.

1846 A. Marsh Father Darcy II. iv. 85 These revolting and most unwise persecutions.

1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xx. 522 It would be unwise to bring the prisoners to trial.

†3. Out of one's senses; mad. Obsolete. rare.Cf. Flemish on-wijs ‘demens’ (Kilian) and Old English on unwís ‘in a mad manner’. Similarly Scottish no wise = mad.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > [adjective] > insanity or madness > affected with

woodc725

woodsekc890

giddyc1000

out of (by, from, of) wit or one's witc1000

witlessc1000

brainsickOE

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lunaticc1290

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alienate?a1425

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madfula1475

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fro oneself1483

beside oneself1490

beside one's patience1490

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red-wood?1507

extraught1509

misminded1509

peevish1523

bedlam-ripe1525

straughta1529

fanatic1533

bedlama1535

daft1540

unsounda1547

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acrazeda1577

past oneself1576

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poll-mad1577

out of one's senses1580

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diswitted1599

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lymphatical1603

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informala1616

far gone1616

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March mada1625

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beside one's gravity1716

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out of one's head1733

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wrong1765

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derangedc1790

alienated1793

shake-brained1793

crack-headed1796

flighty1802

wowf1802

doitrified1808

phrenesiac1814

bedlamite1815

mad-braineda1822

fey1823

bedlamitish1824

skire1825

beside one's wits1827

as mad as a hatter1829

crazied1842

off one's head1842

bemadded1850

loco1852

off one's nut1858

off his chump1864

unsane1867

meshuga1868

non-sane1868

loony1872

bee-headed1879

off one's onion1881

off one's base1882

(to go) off one's dot1883

locoed1885

screwy1887

off one's rocker1890

balmy or barmy on (or in) the crumpet1891

meshuggener1892

nutty1892

buggy1893

bughouse1894

off one's pannikin1894

ratty1895

off one's trolley1896

batchy1898

twisted1900

batsc1901

batty1903

dippy1903

bugs1904

dingy1904

up the (also a) pole1904

nut1906

nuts1908

nutty as a fruitcake1911

bugged1920

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cuckoo1923

nutsy1923

puggled1923

blah1924

détraqué1925

doolally1925

off one's rocket1925

puggle1925

mental1927

phooey1927

crackers1928

squirrelly1928

over the edge1929

round the bend1929

lakes1934

ding-a-ling1935

wacky1935

screwball1936

dingbats1937

Asiatic1938

parlatic1941

troppo1941

up the creek1941

screwed-up1943

bonkers1945

psychological1952

out to lunch1955

starkers1956

off (one's) squiff1960

round the twist1960

yampy1963

out of (also off) one's bird1966

out of one's skull1967

whacked out1969

batshit1971

woo-woo1971

nutso1973

out of (one's) gourd1977

wacko1977

off one's meds1986

a1400 Morte Arth. 3817 Schountes he no lengare; Bot alls vnwyse wodewyse he wente at the gayneste.

1481 W. Caxton tr. Hist. Reynard Fox (1970) 64 I lepe here and there as an vnwyse [Du. onvroet] man.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	unwise
释义	unwiseadj. Brit. /(ˌ)ʌnˈwʌɪz/, U.S. /ˌənˈwaɪz/ Etymology: Old English unwís (un- prefix¹ 1), = North Frisian unwis, -wiss, (Middle) Dutch onwijs, Old Saxon (Middle Low German) unwîs, Old High German unwîs, unwîsi (Middle High German unwîse, German unweise), Old Norse úviss (Middle Swedish and Swedish ovis, Danish and Norwegian uvis), Gothic unweis. 1. a. Lacking or deficient in (practical) wisdom, discretion, or prudence; indiscreet, imprudent, foolish. Also const. in. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > [adjective] dizzyc825 unwisec825 redelessOE unwittyc1000 daftlikec1175 witlessc1175 canga1225 adoted?c1225 cangun?c1225 egedec1225 cangeda1250 foola1250 snepea1250 aerwittec1275 sotlyc1275 unslyc1275 unwitterc1275 unwilya1300 nicec1300 goosishc1374 unskilfulc1374 follyc1380 lewdc1380 mis-feelinga1382 dottlec1390 foltedc1390 peevishc1400 fona1425 fonnishc1425 foliousa1450 foolisha1450 daft?c1450 doitedc1450 dotyc1450 daffish1470 insapientc1470 gucked?a1500 wanwittya1500 furious1526 insipient1528 seelya1529 dawish?1529 foolage1545 momish1546 base-wittedc1547 stultitiousa1549 follifulc1550 senseless1565 mopish1568 fondish1579 unsensiblea1586 fondly1587 dizzardly1594 follial1596 featlessc1598 fopperly1599 gowkeda1605 inept1604 simple1604 anserine1607 foppish1608 silly ass1608 unsage1608 wisdomless1608 fool-beggeda1616 Gotham1621 noddy1645 badot1653 dosser-headed1655 infrunite1657 nonsensicalc1661 slight1663 sappy1670 datelessa1686 noddy-peaked1694 nizy1709 dottled1772 gypit1804 shay-brained1806 folly-stricken1807 fool-like1811 goosy1811 spoony1813 niddle-noddle1821 gumptionless1823 daftish1825 anserous1826 as crazy as a loon1830 spoonish1833 cheese-headed1836 dotty1860 fool-fool1868 noodly1870 dilly1873 gormless1883 daffy1884 monkey-doodle1886 mosy1887 jay1891 pithecanthropic1897 peanut-headed1906 dinlo1907 boob1911 goofy1921 ding-a-ling1935 jerky1944 jerk1947 jerkish1948 pointy-headed1950 doofus1967 twitty1967 twittish1969 nerkish1975 numpty1992 c825 Vesp. Psalter xci. 7 Wer unwis ne oncnaweð & dysig ne ongiteð ða. 971 Blickl. Hom. 89 Ic wæs..unwisum netenum gelic geworden. c1175 Lamb. Hom. 111 Þet is mildheortnesse þet þe wisa mon mid steore þene unwisan irihleche. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 16954 Forr unnwis mann iss blunnt. ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 60 Hwase wule mei gan in. & lede forð heore asse. þet is hare unwise saule. c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 469/250 Heo was puyrliche vnwys in sawe and in spelle. c1315 Shoreham iii. 312 Ich wot hy beþ Vn-wyser þane þe wode. c1325 Metr. Hom. 110 Thar mai we graithe ensampel take, Unwise felawschip to forsake, And hald us imang wise men. c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 411 Þis telliþ an opyn blasfemye, þat crist was vnwiss in þis. 1415 T. Hoccleve To Sir J. Oldcastle 77 Thow art vnwys thogh thow thee wys pretende. c1455 R. Pecock Folewer to Donet 38 [They] holden him þerfore in þat neuer þe vnwiser þan creaturis whiche knowen þe same trouþis. 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. DDvii^v Saye nat as many an vnwyse persone saithe. 1645 J. Milton Tetrachordon 42 When as he should bee not unwiser then the Serpent. 1660 J. Milton Readie Way Free Commonw. 6 A nation..unwise in thir counsels. c1700 Short Acc. Scotland 56 The younger and unwiser of the Bishops. 1746 P. Francis tr. Horace in P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Epistles i. v. 22 The grave Disgrace of being thought unwise. 1827 T. Carlyle State Germ. Lit. in Edinb. Rev. Oct. 313 A class of unwise men. 1871 R. Browning Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau 101 What if the event demonstrate her unwise? in extended use.1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis I. 339 Thus seith the wilde unwise tonge Of hem.1533 J. Gau tr. C. Pedersen Richt Vay 32 Thair onwisz hartis war blyndit.1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus i. i. 2/1 That un-wise science, which..‘By geometric scale Doth take the size of pots of ale’. b. absol. as singular or plural. ΚΠ c825 Vesp. Psalter xiii. 1 Cweð se unwisa in his heortan, nis god. a1300 Floriz & Bl. 1016 Ac Floris cleppen hire bigon, And he him also unwise [Fr. si fait que fol]. c1315 Shoreham i. 355 Þat fleisch wiþ sleuþe and glotonie..[acombreþ] Þoun-wyse. 1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. ix. 84 Ȝe wyse, soffreþ þe vn-wyse wiþ ow for to libbe. 1484 W. Caxton tr. Subtyl Historyes & Fables Esope i. xvii The vnwyse displeseth there, where as he supposeth to please. a1542 T. Wyatt Coll. Poems (1969) 93 Tho th'unwise Had not I-sene suche a beest before. 1647 N. Ward Simple Cobler Aggawam 24 He that instructs a foole, may act th' unwise. 1725 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey II. viii. 559 Th' unwise prevail,..And by the Gods decree proud Ilion falls. 1806 H. K. White Let. 25 June in Remains (1807) I. 228 The religion of Jesus Christ is..wisdom to the unwise. 1871 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues I. 367 The opinions of the unwise are evil. 2. Not marked, distinguished, or prompted by (practical) wisdom; characterized by lack of sound judgement; injudicious. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > misjudgement > [adjective] foolisha1382 misadvisedc1390 unwise1390 indiscreet1413 misdeeming?1471 indigested1587 misjudging1598 unjudicial1599 unjudicious1611 unjudging1612 unjudiciallya1628 injudicious1649 ill-judginga1684 miscalculating1827 foot-shooting1984 1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis I. 166 It is an unwys vengance. 1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. i. 49 Pylgrimis & palmers..Wenten forth in hure way with meny vn-wyse tales. a1425 tr. Arderne's Treat. Fistula 44 If þe fynger..haue be long vnheled of vnwise cure. 1513 Queen Katherine in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1846) 3rd Ser. I. 153 With my servants unwise demeanur I am noo thing wel contente. 1583 P. Barrough Methode of Phisicke i. xxiv. 31 Ther goeth before this euill [sc. epilepsy] an vnwyse state of the body and mind. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III iv. i. 51 Be not tane tardie, by vnwise delaie. View more context for this quotation 1678 S. Butler Hudibras: Third Pt. iii. iii. 224 This Gambol thou advisest, Is, of all others, the unwisest. 1798 S. Lee Young Lady's Tale in H. Lee Canterbury Tales II. 4 Lady Lettingham exacted one compliance, even her brother thought not unwise. a1800 W. Cowper tr. Homer Odyssey (ed. 2) xv. 12 It were a deed unwise, To sojourn longer here. 1809 S. T. Coleridge Friend 158 The conduct..was equally unwise in private life and to individuals. 1846 A. Marsh Father Darcy II. iv. 85 These revolting and most unwise persecutions. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xx. 522 It would be unwise to bring the prisoners to trial. †3. Out of one's senses; mad. Obsolete. rare.Cf. Flemish on-wijs ‘demens’ (Kilian) and Old English on unwís ‘in a mad manner’. Similarly Scottish no wise = mad. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > [adjective] > insanity or madness > affected with woodc725 woodsekc890 giddyc1000 out of (by, from, of) wit or one's witc1000 witlessc1000 brainsickOE amadc1225 lunaticc1290 madc1330 sickc1340 brain-wooda1375 out of one's minda1387 frenetica1398 fonda1400 formada1400 unwisea1400 brainc1400 unwholec1400 alienate?a1425 brainless1434 distract of one's wits1470 madfula1475 furious1475 distract1481 fro oneself1483 beside oneself1490 beside one's patience1490 dementa1500 red-wood?1507 extraught1509 misminded1509 peevish1523 bedlam-ripe1525 straughta1529 fanatic1533 bedlama1535 daft1540 unsounda1547 stark raving (also staring) mad1548 distraughted1572 insane1575 acrazeda1577 past oneself1576 frenzy1577 poll-mad1577 out of one's senses1580 maddeda1586 frenetical1588 distempered1593 distraught1597 crazed1599 diswitted1599 idle-headed1599 lymphatical1603 extract1608 madling1608 distracteda1616 informala1616 far gone1616 crazy1617 March mada1625 non compos mentis1628 brain-crazed1632 demented1632 crack-brained1634 arreptitiousa1641 dementate1640 dementated1650 brain-crackeda1652 insaniated1652 exsensed1654 bedlam-witteda1657 lymphatic1656 mad-like1679 dementative1685 non compos1699 beside one's gravity1716 hyte1720 lymphated1727 out of one's head1733 maddened1735 swivel-eyed1758 wrong1765 brainsickly1770 fatuous1773 derangedc1790 alienated1793 shake-brained1793 crack-headed1796 flighty1802 wowf1802 doitrified1808 phrenesiac1814 bedlamite1815 mad-braineda1822 fey1823 bedlamitish1824 skire1825 beside one's wits1827 as mad as a hatter1829 crazied1842 off one's head1842 bemadded1850 loco1852 off one's nut1858 off his chump1864 unsane1867 meshuga1868 non-sane1868 loony1872 bee-headed1879 off one's onion1881 off one's base1882 (to go) off one's dot1883 locoed1885 screwy1887 off one's rocker1890 balmy or barmy on (or in) the crumpet1891 meshuggener1892 nutty1892 buggy1893 bughouse1894 off one's pannikin1894 ratty1895 off one's trolley1896 batchy1898 twisted1900 batsc1901 batty1903 dippy1903 bugs1904 dingy1904 up the (also a) pole1904 nut1906 nuts1908 nutty as a fruitcake1911 bugged1920 potty1920 cuckoo1923 nutsy1923 puggled1923 blah1924 détraqué1925 doolally1925 off one's rocket1925 puggle1925 mental1927 phooey1927 crackers1928 squirrelly1928 over the edge1929 round the bend1929 lakes1934 ding-a-ling1935 wacky1935 screwball1936 dingbats1937 Asiatic1938 parlatic1941 troppo1941 up the creek1941 screwed-up1943 bonkers1945 psychological1952 out to lunch1955 starkers1956 off (one's) squiff1960 round the twist1960 yampy1963 out of (also off) one's bird1966 out of one's skull1967 whacked out1969 batshit1971 woo-woo1971 nutso1973 out of (one's) gourd1977 wacko1977 off one's meds1986 a1400 Morte Arth. 3817 Schountes he no lengare; Bot alls vnwyse wodewyse he wente at the gayneste. 1481 W. Caxton tr. Hist. Reynard Fox (1970) 64 I lepe here and there as an vnwyse [Du. onvroet] man. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.c825
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