- in Old Scots, this word, meaning 'ingratitude' is recorded in a number of different sources, including William Stewart's account of England's Edward I in his Buik of the Croniclis of Scotland (1535):
Edward with the lang schankis / That efterwart did Scotland greit vnthankis.
In the Lanarkshire names High Unthank and Laigh Unthank, as in similar names found in England, unthank denotes a place occupied without consent, sometimes described as a 'squatter farm'. Unthank is also the name of the imaginary city in Alasdair Gray's novel, Lanark (1981).