Meanings
adjectiveantrin (comparative more antrin, superlative most antrin)
comparative more antrin · superlative most antrin
- ScotlandStrange, rare, unusual.
But there was more to it than that, some never knew it, but real enough, an antrin magic that bound you in one with the mind, not only the body of a man, with his dreams and desires, his loves, even hates […]
1934, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Grey Granite (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 554
Origin
- Scotsantrin
- Englishantrin
From Scots antrin, present participle of anter (“to adventure, venture”).
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