Meanings
adjectiveuntenty (comparative more untenty, superlative most untenty)
comparative more untenty · superlative most untenty
- ScotlandInattentive; clumsy; incautious.
I have told you already I would never be so untenty as to commit myself.
1893, Robert Louis Stevenson, Catriona1 more example
"The cursed Highland salvages!" muttered the captain, half aloud; "what is to become of me, if Gustavus, the namesake of the invincible Lion of the Protestant League, should be lamed among their untenty hands?"
1819, Walter Scott, A Legend of Montrose
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