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Unco

has two meanings: As an adjective it means unknown, strange, unusual; but as an adverb it means very—as unco good, unco glad, etc. The “unco guid” are the pinchbeck saints, too good by half.

“The race of the ‘unco guidʹ is not yet quite extinct in Scotland.”—A Daily Journal.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Una (Truth, so called because truth is one)
Una Serranilla [a little mountain song]
Unaneled
Uncas
Uncial Letters
Uncircumcised in Heart and Ears (Acts vii. 51)
Uncle
Uncle
Uncle Sam
Uncle Tom
Unco
Uncumber (St.)
Under-current
Under-spur-leather
Under the Rose [sub rosa]
Under Weigh
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Underwriter
Undine
Ungrateful Guest (The)
Unguem