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uncouth

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Scrabble points
12
Words With Friends
15
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/ʌnˈkuːθ/

Definition of uncouth

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (archaic)Unfamiliar, strange, foreign.
    “If this uncouth forest yield anything savage, I will either be food for it or bring it for food to thee.”
    “The trouble of thy thoughts this night in sleep Affects me equally; nor can I like This uncouth' dream, of evil sprung I fear […]”
    “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.”
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adj

  1. (archaic)Unfamiliar, strange, foreign.
    “If this uncouth forest yield anything savage, I will either be food for it or bring it for food to thee.”
    “The trouble of thy thoughts this night in sleep Affects me equally; nor can I like This uncouth' dream, of evil sprung I fear […]”
    “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.
    “I don't want to associate with uncouth people.”
    “Harsh words, though pertinent, uncouth appear: / None please the fancy, who offend the ear.”
    “If Yule found it delightful, why did Kipling find it uncouth?”
    ““I don’t think it’s uncouth to talk about it. I think it’s a reality that has to inform the urgency with which we approach those issues.””

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Etymology

From Middle English uncouth, from Old English uncūþ (“unknown; unfamiliar; strange”), from Proto-West Germanic *unkunþ, from Proto-Germanic *unkunþaz (“unknown”), equivalent to un- + couth. The modern pronunciation does not show…

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From Middle English uncouth, from Old English uncūþ (“unknown; unfamiliar; strange”), from Proto-West Germanic *unkunþ, from Proto-Germanic *unkunþaz (“unknown”), equivalent to un- + couth. The modern pronunciation does not show /aʊ/, the usual development of the Middle English vowel from the Great Vowel Shift. It is usually explained as a pronunciation taken from Northern English dialects, which did not undergo the diphthongization of the vowel.

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