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The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary
By Pauline Cairns Speitel
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unca
adjective
ill-natured, rude, unseemly
in North East Scotland
,
18-
.
etymology:
a variant of Scots
unco
‘weird, strange’; late Middle English
unkow
; shortened from
uncouth
: this meaning obsolete in Modern Scots from
e
19
; attested by
SR