Un·couth a.
1. Unknown. [Obs.] “This uncouth errand.”
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 rich. --Chaucer.
3. Unfamiliar; strange; hence, mysterious; dreadful; also, odd; awkward; boorish; as, uncouth manners. “Uncouth in guise and gesture.”
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.
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uncouthness
n : inelegance by virtue of being an uncouth boor [syn: boorishness]