Hypertext Webster Gateway: "uncouth"

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) 1.7 (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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