uncouth
English
Etymology
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From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English uncouth, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English uncūþ (“unknown; unfamiliar; strange”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *unkunþaz (“unknown”), equivalent to un- + couth.
Pronunciation
Adjective
uncouth (comparative uncouther or more uncouth, superlative uncouthest or most uncouth)
- (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.
- 1819: Washington Irving, The Sketch Book (The Voyage)
- Clumsy, awkward.
- Unrefined, crude.
- 1699, Samuel Garth, The Dispensary, Canto IV, line 204:
- Harsh words, though pertinent, uncouth appear:
None please the fancy, who offend the ear.
- 2014, James Lambert, “A Much Tortured Expression: A New Look At `Hobson-Jobson'”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 27, number 1, page 58:
- If Yule found it delightful, why did Kipling find it uncouth?
Synonyms
- fremd
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Translations
unfamiliar, strange, foreign
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clumsy, awkward
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unrefined, crude
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