uncouth

== English == === Etymology === 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. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ʌnˈkuːθ/ Rhymes: -uːθ === Adjective === uncouth (comparative uncouther or more uncouth, superlative uncouthest or most uncouth) (archaic) Unfamiliar, strange, foreign. Antonym: (obsolete) couth Clumsy, awkward. Synonym: fremd Unrefined, crude. Synonyms: impolite; see also Thesaurus:impolite Antonym: couth ==== Derived terms ==== unco uncouthness ==== Related terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Anagrams === untouch == Yola == === Etymology === From Middle English uncouth, from Old English uncūþ (“unknown; unfamiliar; strange”), from Proto-West Germanic *unkunþ. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ʊnˈkuːθ/ === Adjective === uncouth strange Synonym: unket 1867, “WEXFORD THREE HUNDRED YEARS AGO”, line 9, in APPENDIX: === References === Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 120