un|co

un|co «UHNG koh», adverb, adjective, noun, plural -cos. Scottish.

–adv.

remarkably; very; extremely.

–adj.

1. unknown, strange, or unusual: »

It was an unco thing to bid a mother leave her ain house (Scott).

2. remarkable, extraordinary, or great.

3. uncanny: »

It was an unco place by night (Robert Louis Stevenson).

–n.

1. something novel or strange.

2. a stranger.

3. uncos, news.

╂[ultimately variant of uncouth]