uncouth : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: uncouth	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for uncouth
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [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" Synonym(s): coarse, common, rough-cut, uncouth, vulgar
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Uncouth \Uncouth"\, 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.] [bd]This uncouth* errand.[b8] --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. [bd]Uncouth in guise and gesture.[b8] --I. Taylor. I am surprised with an uncouth fear. --Shak. Thus sang the uncouth swain. --Milton. Syn: See {Awkward}. -- {Uncouth"ly}, adv. -- {Uncouth"ness}, n.