unrude

English

Etymology

un- +‎ rude

Adjective

unrude (comparative more unrude, superlative most unrude)

1. Not rude.
   • 1648, Robert Herrick, “A Paneygeric to Sir Lewis Pemberton”, in Hesperides: Or, The Works both Humane & Divine […], London: […] John Williams, and Francis Eglesfield, and are to be sold by Tho[mas] Hunt, […], →OCLC; republished as Henry G. Clarke, editor, Hesperides, or Works both Human and Divine, volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: H. G. Clarke and Co., […], 1844, →OCLC:

     Manners knows distance, and a man unrude / Would soon recoil, and not intrude / His stomach to a second meal.

     The spelling has been modernized.

Synonyms

• polite

Anagrams

• Dunure, unrued