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[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
uncouth \uncouth"\ u^nk=ooth", a. oe. uncouth, as.
   unc=ueth unknown, strange: un- see un- not +
   c=ueth known, p. p. of cunnan to know. see can to be
   able, and cf. unco, unked.
   1. unknown. obs. "this uncouth errand." --milton.
      1913 webster

            to leave the good that i had in hand,
            in hope of better that was uncouth.   --spenser.
      1913 webster

   2. uncommon; rare; exquisite; elegant. obs.
      1913 webster

            harness . . . so uncouth and so rich. --chaucer.
      1913 webster

   3. unfamiliar; strange; hence, mysterious; dreadful; also,
      odd; awkward; boorish; as, uncouth manners. "uncouth in
      guise and gesture." --i. taylor.
      1913 webster

            i am surprised with an uncouth fear.  --shak.
      1913 webster

            thus sang the uncouth swain.          --milton.
      1913 webster

   syn: see awkward.
        1913 webster -- uncouth"ly, adv. --
        uncouth"ness, n.
        1913 webster
see also:
un- can unco unked awkward uncouth"ly 
uncouth"ness 
[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
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, rough-cut,
           vulgar
see also:
coarse common rough-cut vulgar 
[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
138 moby thesaurus words for "uncouth":
   doric, gothic, neanderthal, abandoned, all thumbs, animal, awkward,
   barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, bestial, bizarre, blunderheaded,
   blundering, boorish, broad, brutal, brutish, bumbling, bungling,
   butterfingered, cacophonous, careless, churlish, cloddish,
   clodhopping, clownish, clumsy, clumsy-fisted, coarse, countrified,
   country-born, country-bred, crass, crude, cumbersome, curious,
   deserted, desolate, discourteous, disrespectful, doggerel,
   dysphemistic, earthy, eccentric, erratic, farmerish,
   fingers all thumbs, forsaken, frank, from the sticks, fumbling,
   gauche, gawkish, gawky, graceless, gross, gutter, ham-fisted,
   ham-handed, harsh, hayseed, heavy-handed, hick, hicky, hobnailed,
   hulking, hulky, ill-bred, ill-mannered, impermanent, impolite,
   improper, impure, in bad taste, inconcinnate, inconcinnous,
   incorrect, indecorous, inelegant, infelicitous, inurbane,
   left-hand, left-handed, loutish, low, lubberly, lumbering, lumpen,
   lumpish, maladroit, noncivilized, oafish, odd, oddball, outlandish,
   ponderous, primitive, quaint, queer, rank, raw, rough,
   rough-and-ready, rube, rude, rummy, savage, sloppy, solitary,
   stiff, tasteless, troglodytic, uncalled-for, uncivil, uncivilized,
   uncombed, uncourtly, uncultivated, uncultured, undignified,
   uneuphonious, unfelicitous, ungainly, ungraceful, unhandy, unkempt,
   unlicked, unpolished, unrefined, unseemly, untamed, unwieldy,
   up-country, vulgar, wild, yokel, yokelish





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