Ungain
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Ungain is an adjective meaning (obsolete or UK, dialect) ungainly; clumsy or awkward.
Meaning
(obsolete or UK, dialect) ungainly; clumsy or awkward.
More Meanings
- (obsolete or UK, dialect) troublesome or inconvenient
Example Sentences
an ungain, dull sort of a body,
she take th ' ungain'st weas she can
to know a person if one leaves but a quart in a hogshead, it's two pints too much. That's my notion. But, Sir, that was but an ungain business at 'Squire Monckton's t'other morning. Every body was no-how, as one may say.
Tom's hard, ungain, scrag-of-mutton frame; wilted, apple-john face (he always looked twenty years older than he really was), his long spider legs, as thick at the ankles as at the hips, and perfectly straight all the way down
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include ungainlie, unked, ungoodly, loobily, uglesome, aukward.
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