unthank

Meanings

1. Lack or absence of thanks or thankfulness; thanklessness; unthankfulness; ill-will.

1. To recant; unsay, as what has been said by way of acknowledgement.
2. To undo or retract one's thankfulness; negate, cancel, or revoke one's thanks.

1. A surname.
2. A number of places in England:
3. A hamlet in Dalston parish, Cumberland, Cumbria, previously in Carlisle district (OS grid ref NY3948).
4. A hamlet in Glassonby parish, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, previously in Eden district (OS grid ref NY6040).
5. A hamlet in Skelton parish, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, previously in Eden district (OS grid ref NY4536).
6. A hamlet in Holmesfield parish, North East Derbyshire district, Derbyshire (OS grid ref SK3076).
7. A hamlet just south of Stanhope, Stanhope parish, County Durham (OS grid ref NY9939).
8. A hamlet in Alnham parish, Northumberland (OS grid ref NU0111).
9. A locality in Plenmeller with Whitfield parish, Northumberland, which includes Unthank Hall, and the hamlets of East Unthank and West Unthank (OS grid ref NY7363).
10. A hamlet north of Brechin, Angus council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NO6061).

Etymology

From Middle English unthank, from Old English unþanc (“displeasure, anger, ill-will”), from Proto-Germanic *unþankaz, equivalent to un- + thank. Cognate with West Frisian ontank, Dutch ondank, German Undank, Danish utak.