Unluck

(UN-¹ 12. Cf. WFris. onlok, ûnlok, MLG. unlucke, LG. unlük, ON. úlukka, etc.; and WANLUCK.)

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[The following early instance is of foreign origin:—

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1556. Aurelio & Isabell, N 7. The fortune that unto her ennemys makes to seake the onlockes.]

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1838. Cruikshank’s Comic Almanack, I. 142. Last Friday was a notable instance of my unluck.

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1891. Atkinson, Moorland Par., 94. That bad management … might have something to do with the unluck of his stock.

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