donsie

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Scots

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Adjective

donsie

  1. unfortunate, luckless, hapless
    • 1787, Robert Burns, 'Address to the Unco Guid'
      Their donsie tricks, their black mistakes, / Their failings and mischances.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
  2. neat, trim
  3. sickly