unbonny

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

un- +‎ bonny

Adjective[edit]

unbonny (comparative more unbonny, superlative most unbonny)

  1. (UK, regional) Not attractive; unpleasant to look at.
    • 1990, Douglas Rae, The Fires of Autumn, page 38:
      An unbonny sight she might have been amid all that slime and stink, a wader in blood with a face blackened by the smoke from the paraffin flares and the bubbly lamps, […]
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