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uncouth |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Uncouth \Un*couth"\, a. [OE. uncouth, AS unc?? unknown, strange: un- (see {Un-} not) + c?? known p. p. of cunnan to know See {Can} to be able, and cf {Unco}, {Unked}.] 1. Unknown. [Obs.] ``This uncouth errand.'' --Milton. To leave the good that I had in hand, In hope of better that was uncouth. --Spenser. 2. Uncommon; rare exquisite; elegant. [Obs.] Harness . . . so uncouth and so rish. --Chaucer. 3. Unfamiliar; strange; hence mysterious; dreadful; also odd; awkward; boorish; as uncouth manners. ``Uncouth in guise and gesture.'' --I. Taylor. I am surprised with an uncouth fear. --Shak. Thus sang the uncouth swain. --Milton. Syn: See {Awkward}. -- {Un*couth"ly}, adv -- {Un*couth"ness}, n. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: uncouth adj : lacking refinement or cultivation or taste; "he had coarse manners but a first-rate mind"; "behavior that branded him as common"; "an untutored and uncouth human being"; "an uncouth soldier--a real tough guy"; "appealing to the vulgar taste for violence"; "the vulgar display of the newly rich" [syn: {coarse}, {common}, {vulgar}]
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