uncouth

English

Etymology

Old English uncūþ; un- +‎ couth.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ʌnˈkuːθ/

  Rhymes: -uːθ

Adjective

uncouth (comparative uncouther or more uncouth, superlative uncouthest or most uncouth)

1. (archaic) Unfamiliar, strange, foreign.
   • 1819: Washington Irving, The Sketch Book (The Voyage)

     There was a delicious sensation of mingled security and awe with which I looked down, from my giddy height, on the monsters of the deep at their uncouth gambols.

2. Clumsy, awkward.
3. Unrefined, crude.

Derived terms

• uncouthness

Translations

unfamiliar, strange, foreign

• Finnish: outo (fi)
• Italian: strano (it)

• Norwegian: underlig (no)
• Russian: необычный (ru) (neobýčnyj)

clumsy, awkward

• Finnish: kömpelö (fi)
• Italian: goffo (it)
• Norwegian: keitete (no), klossete (no)

• Russian: неуклюжий (ru) (neukljúžij), неловкий (ru) (nelóvkij), неповоротливый (ru) (nepovorótlivyj)

unrefined, crude

• Arabic: فَظُّ (ar) (fuẓẓ)
• Armenian: բռի (hy) (bṙi)
• Finnish: karkea (fi), tökerö (fi)
• French: rustre (fr) m and f
• Greek: άξεστος (el) (áksestos) m
• Hungarian: faragatlan (hu), csiszolatlan (hu)

• Italian: rozzo (it), grossolano (it)
• Maori: mohoao (mi), mohowao (mi)
• Norwegian: ukultivert (no)
• Russian: грубый (ru) (grúbyj), неотёсанный (ru) (neotjósannyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: gràisgeil (gd)