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uncouth

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7 lettersPronunciation /ʌnˈkuːθ/Part of speech adjectiveSorted chnotuuStarts with UEnds with H0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. lacking refinement or cultivation or taste

Word origin

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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  • If this uncouth forest yield anything savage, I will either be food for it or bring it for food to thee.
  • The trouble of thy thoughts this night in sleep Affects me equally; nor can I like This uncouth' dream, of evil sprung I fear […]
  • There was a delicious sensation of mingled security and awe with which I looked down, from my giddy height, on the monsters of the deep at their uncouth gambols.

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