obuncous

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin obuncus.

Adjective

obuncous (comparative more obuncous, superlative most obuncous)

(archaic, very rare) Crooked; bent.
- 1893 December, Samuel Conkey, “An Adventure with a Hackee”, in St. Nicholas, volume XXI, number 2, page 185:
  Being easily exsuscitated, and an amnicolist fond of inescating fish and broggling, with an ineluctable desire for the amolition of care, I took a punt and descended the river in a snithy gale. The water being smooth, I felt I could venture with incolumity, as I was familiar with the obuncous river.
- 1916 December 16, “Perspective Impressions”, in Town Talk, volume XXVIII, number 1269, San Francisco, page 6:
  Speaking of the garbage problem, why not incinerate some of our obuncous politicians?
- 2010 January, Brenda IIjima, “Panthering”, in If Not Metamorphic, Ahsahta Press, page 113:
  Obuncous stake sweating the desk / In winter / For that matter, the ashen morning of loss
- 2013, Lexmilian S. R. B. de Mello, Percarus‎, [self-published through Xlibris]:
  The rabble became obuncous towards the poet's scribbiling.–

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