a. Sc. and north. [UN-1 7.]
1. Luckless, unlucky, ill-omened, uncanny.
1560. Rolland, Seven Sages, 47. The Mairch [= marrow] heirof I sall declair, The quhilk pertenis to ȝour vnsonsie Air. Ibid., 82. That may serve weill sic ane vnsonsie Sanct.
1683. G. M[eriton], Yorks. Dial. (1684), 71. You are unsawncy, I think by my life.
1728. Ramsay, Anacreontic on Love, 32. He leugh, and with unsonsy jest, Cry’d,… Did not my arrow flie right smart?
1771. Foote, Maid of B., II. My father was so unsaunzy as to gang out with Charley in the forty-five.
1814. Scott, Wav., lxvii. At these unsonsy hours the glen has a bad name.
1897. W. Beatty, Secretar, xiv. 105. As unsonsy a place as I could have chanced on.
2. Unhandsome, plain.
1894. Crockett, Raiders, xxi. I’m nane so unsonsy yet, though I be auld eneuch to be the laddie’s mither.
