10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UNHEPPEN»
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unheppen in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
unheppen and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
UNHEPPEN, adj.—Clumsy, awkward, unhandy. Yon's a real unheppen chap. He
can use his arm all right, but it looks unheppen. I'm so unheppen about a garden :
I know nowt about it. UN HONEST, aal7'.~—Dishonest. She as good as said I ...
English Dialect Society, 1886
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The Peacock Lincolnshire word books: 1884-1920 : with ...
[I] ungain Awkward: ill to deal with [F,2*] ungain to look at Plain, ugly Its straange
an ungain to look at. [I] unheppen Awkward, clumsy: not handy in doing anything.
Come, come, you're very unheppen: can't you manage it better nor that? [9] Joe ...
Max Peacock, Mabel Peacock, Eileen Elder, 1997
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A Glossary of the Cleveland Dialect: Explanatory, ...
Ungain, adj. Not near at hand, inconvenient of access; inconvenient or awkward.
See Gain. Unheppen, adj. 1. Clumsy, awkward, without contrivance or
management. 2. Untidy, sluttish in person and dress. Ant-r. Riwle afi'ords
instances of the ...
John Christopher Atkinson, 1868
Why thou'rt sthrange and unheppen. What meagrims art thee up to? Thou moan t
pull i' that how; thou nobbut hes to pull the neck. That's reight, good da'ay to thee.
C Jr. 1. TRANSLATIONS OF HOMER. Lord Derby's translation, great in itself ...
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A General Dictionary of Provincialisms. -London, Russel ...
UNHEPPEN, adj. Unbecoming; indecent; uncomfortable; untidy. Craven. UNKA
RD, adj. Awkward. North. UNKED, adj. 1 Lonely. Grose. UNKET, UNKED,
SDreary; dismal. Sons. Melancholy. Oxford. Wretchedly bad; uncomfortable.
Bucks.
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The Dialect of Craven, in the West-Riding of the County of ...
Tim Bobbin. UNGONE, Not gone. " He's just ungone;" i. e. at the point of death.
UN-GRUND, Not grinded. UN-HECKLED, Disordered in dress. UNHEPPEN,
Untidy, indecent in dress, unbecoming. UNHONEST, Dishonest. " They made the
holy ...
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A Tennyson Dictionary: The Characters and Place-names ...
LUCY. Daughter of the village squire. She was supposed to have an ungainly
deportment. An' Lucy wur laame o' one leg, sweet- 'arts she niver 'ed none —
Straange an' unheppen Miss Lucy ! we naamed her ' Dot an' gaw one ! ' Village
Wife.
Arthur Ernest Baker, 1967
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The Dialect of Craven: In the West-Riding of the County of York
Tim Bobbin. UNGONE, Not gone. " He's just ungone ;" i. e. at the point of death.
UN-GRUND, Not grinded. UN-HECKLED, Disordered in dress. UNHEPPEN,
Untidy, indecent in dress, unbecoming. UNHONEST, Dishonest. " They made the
holy ...
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Varieties of English in Writing: The Written Word as ...
... features as well as the assessment of accuracy is superficially quite easy with
respect to morphosyntax and vocabulary. In his poem The Village Wife (1880),
set in Lincolnshire, Tennyson, for example, uses the adjective unheppen 'clumsy'.
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Linguistics across Historical and Geographical Boundaries: ...
... hightle 'seesaw' is not recorded in the EDD; for unheppen 'clumsy' Y and L; for
ledges 'bars' North Country, Db, L, Nf, Sf, So; for boke 'retch' Nb, Cu, We, Y, Ch,
Db, Nt, L, Nf, Sf, K, Sx and for stowk 'stook' North Country, Ch, Nt, Wa and L. The ...
Dieter Kastovsky, Aleksander Szwedek, 1986
