ungain

adjective

1. ungainly; clumsy or awkward

   obsolete

   she take th ' ungain'st weas she can

2. troublesome or inconvenient

   obsolete

   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.

Where it comes from

From Middle English ungain, ungayn, ungein, equivalent to un- + gain (“suitable; convenient”). See ungainly.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry ungain (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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