antrin

English

Etymology

From Scots antrin, present participle of anter (“to adventure, venture”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈan.tɹɪn/

Adjective

antrin (comparative more antrin, superlative most antrin)

1. (Scotland) Strange, rare, unusual.
   • 1934, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Grey Granite (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 554:

     But there was more to it than that, some never knew it, but real enough, an antrin magic that bound you in one with the mind, not only the body of a man, with his dreams and desires, his loves, even hates […]

Scots

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑn.trɪn/, /ˈɑn.trən/

Verb

antrin

1. present participle of anter

Adjective

antrin (comparative mair antrin, superlative maist antrin)

1. strange, rare