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Uncouth

//ʌnˈkuːθ// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Unfamiliar, strange, foreign. archaic

    "If this uncouth forest yield anything savage, I will either be food for it or bring it for food to thee."

  2. 2
    Clumsy, awkward.
  3. 3
    Unrefined, crude.

    "I don't want to associate with uncouth people."

Adjective
  1. 1
    lacking refinement or cultivation or taste wordnet

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 /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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