uncouth

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Unfamiliar, strange, foreign. archaic
    — If this uncouth forest yield anything savage, I will either be food for it or bring it for food to thee.
  2. Clumsy, awkward.
  3. Unrefined, crude.
    — I don't want to associate with uncouth people.

词形变化

uncouther comparative more uncouth comparative uncouthest superlative most uncouth superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
unco uncouthly uncouthness

词源

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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