adjective · rare

uncouth

uncouth · uncouther · uncouthest

смішний, кумедний, забавний

грубый, неуклюжий, неловкий, неповоротливый

ungeschickt, schwerfällig, tölpelhaft, grobschlächtig

Clumsy, awkwardClumsy, awkward.

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/ʌnˈkuːθ/

» Am I being uncouth?

Meaning

3 senses

Clumsy, awkward.
tölpelhaft, schwerfällig, ungeschickt
неуклю́жийneukljúžij, нело́вкийnelóvkij, неповоро́тливыйnepovorótlivyj
Unrefined, crude.
I don't want to associate with uncouth people.
grobschlächtig, tumb
гру́быйgrúbyj, неотёсанныйneotjósannyj
(archaic)Unfamiliar, strange, foreign.
fremd, fremdartig, sonderbar
необы́чныйneobýčnyj

More definitions

lacking refinement or cultivation or taste

Examples

6 sentences

Am I being uncouth?
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He is rude and uncouth.
Він грубий і хамуватий.
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It may be uncouth, but I love to eat peanut butter out of a jar with a spoon.
Може, це й не дуже культурно, але я обожнюю їсти арахісове масло ложкою просто з банки.
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These kids are so angry and uncouth.
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How dare you accuse one of my guests of uncouth behavior?
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Translations

6 languages

Русский

By meaning 3

unfamiliar, strange, foreign:

clumsy, awkward:

unrefined, crude:

Deutsch

By meaning 3

unfamiliar, strange, foreign:

clumsy, awkward:

unrefined, crude:

Origin

From Middle English uncouth, from Old English uncūþ (“unknown; unfamiliar; strange”), from

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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