Unbowsome

a. Obs. exc. dial. [UN-¹ 7. Cf. NFris. ünbügsom, MDu. onboochsam, Du. onbuigzaam, G. unbeugsam.]

  1.  = UNBUXOM a. 1.

c. 1290.  S. Eng. Leg., I. 266/185. Ake þat ich onbouȝsum ne beo i-seie … I-chulle bidde for þe, mi leoue fader.

1340.  Ayenb., 21. Þou hest y-by onboȝsam to þine uader and to þine moder.

c. 1340.  Hampole, Pr. Consc., 8596. Grysely devels salle gang and com On þe synfulle þat tylle God war unbowsom.

1818.  Hogg, Brownie of B., i. Ye hae a dour, stiff, unbowsom kind o’ nature in ye.

  2.  dial. Unbending, stiff.

1818.  Hogg, Wool-gatherer Tales (1866), 80/2. It makes … but an unbowsome overleather.

1894.  Heslop, Northumbld. Gloss., 755. He’s … ungainly an’ unbowsome.

  Hence Unbowsomeness.

1340.  Ayenb., 33. Þe uerste [point] is onboȝsamnesse, huanne þe man nele do þet me him zayþ inc penonce.

c. 1400.  Cursor M., 27616 (Cott. Galba). Of pride cumes als vnbowsumnes.

c. 1450.  St. Cuthbert (Surtees), 3377. Þai wer glad and somwhat shamed,… Þaim shamed of þair vnbowsomnes.