untentyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

untenty (comparative more untenty, superlative most untenty)

1. (Scottish) Inattentive; clumsy; incautious.
   • 1819, A Legend of Montrose, Walter Scott,

     "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?"

   • 1893, Catriona, Robert Louis Stevenson,

     I have told you already I would never be so untenty as to commit myself.