Definitions for: 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"

Webster (1913) Definition: Un*couth", 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.] ``This uncouth errand.'' --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. ``Uncouth in
guise and gesture.'' --I. Taylor.

I am surprised with an uncouth fear. --Shak.

Thus sang the uncouth swain. --Milton.

Syn: See Awkward. -- Un*couth"ly, adv. --
Un*couth"ness, n.

Synonyms: coarse, common, unrefined, vulgar

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