A Scots dialect compound using 'wan-' as a negative prefix (from Old Norse 'van-', meaning lack or deficiency) plus 'fortune'.
A Scots dialect compound using 'wan-' as a negative prefix (from Old Norse 'van-', meaning lack or deficiency) plus 'fortune'. Closely related to 'wanchance' and 'wanluck', all part of a cluster of Scots words expressing bad luck or ill fate.
It was pure wanfortune that the roof caved in the very week he'd finally paid off his debts.
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(dialectal, chiefly, _, Scotland) Misfortune.
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