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uncouthness

 

  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]: 
 
  uncouthness 
  n  :  inelegance  by  virtue  of  being  an  uncouth  boor  [syn:  {boorishness}]




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