ungain
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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.
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Definition of ungain
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adj
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(UK, dialectal, obsolete)ungainly; clumsy or awkward
“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”
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adj
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(UK, dialectal, obsolete)ungainly; clumsy or awkward
“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”
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(UK, dialectal, obsolete)troublesome or inconvenient
“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.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English ungain, ungayn, ungein, equivalent to un- + gain (“suitable; convenient”). See ungainly.
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