ungain

From Middle English ungain, ungayn, ungein, equivalent to un- +‎ gain (“suitable; convenient”). See ungainly.

ungain (comparative more ungain, superlative most ungain)

1. (obsolete or UK, dialect) ungainly; clumsy or awkward
   • c. 1607–1611, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “Cupid’s Revenge”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     she take th ' ungain'st weas she can

   • 1786, John Burgoyne, The Heiress:

     an ungain, dull sort of a body,

   • 1907, John Nyren, The Hambledon Men:

     Tom's hard, ungain, scrag-of-mutton frame; wilted, apple-john face (he always looked twenty years older than he really was), his long spider legs, as thick at the ankles as at the hips, and perfectly straight all the way down

2. (obsolete or UK, dialect) troublesome or inconvenient
   • 1782, Frances Burney, Cecilia:

     to know a person if one leaves but a quart in a hogshead, it's two pints too much. That's my notion. But, Sir, that was but an ungain business at 'Squire Monckton's t'other morning. Every body was no-how, as one may say.

• ungainly (adverb)

• “ungain”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Guinan, Gunian, guanin