unco guid, the
unco guid, the Scottish term for those who are professedly strict in matters of morals and religion; unco (an alteration of uncouth) means ‘extremely, remarkably’, and the expression comes from the title of Robert Burns's ‘Address to the Unco Guid, or the Rigidly Righteous’ (1786).
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Alloway, Ayrshire, Scotland
Dumfries, Scotland
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