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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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(Unlukkie,) Unlukie, -luckie, -lucky, adj. [e.m.E. unluckye (1530), unlucky (a1547), unluckie (1568); Lukkie adj.]
1. That is marked by bad luck; unfortunate.1572 Buch. Detect. (1727) 36.
All gude men … grudgeingly foirjudgeing the unlukie end thairof 1630-1651 Gordon Geneal. Hist. 107.
Vnluckie 1701 Cramond Kirk S. IV 14 March.
I am extreamly sensible of the worthy gentlemen that compass your session, thair tendernesse to me in this unluckie particular 1707 Conv. Burghs IV 424.
This imbara of the trade at the beginning of the Union was very unluckie
2. That threatens to bring about misfortune; ill-omened, inauspicious.16.. J. Row Cupp of Bon-Accord 2.
Ye ken well eneugh Balaam was ganging ane vnluckie gate a1658 Durham Commandments (1675) 112.
Unlucky … to have a hare cross ones way 1685 Sinclair Satan's Inv. World 214.
I will not speak of ridiculous friets, such as our meeting with a lucky or unlucky foot, when we are going about important business 1691 Kirk Secr. Commonw. (1933) 70.
Crazed bodies … seem to have some pleasure … by … whistling and screeching (like unlukie birds) in their unhallowed synagogues and sabboths
