Meaning of ungain | Babel Free

Definitions

1. ungainly; clumsy or awkward
   UK, dialectal, obsolete
2. troublesome or inconvenient
   UK, dialectal, obsolete

Examples

“she take th ' ungain'st weas she can”

“an ungain, dull sort of a body,”

“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”

“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.”

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