uncouth

From Middle English uncouth, from Old English uncūþ (“unknown; unfamiliar; strange”), from Proto-Germanic *unkunþaz (“unknown”), equivalent to un- +‎ couth.

• IPA^(key): /ʌnˈkuːθ/

  Rhymes: -uːθ

uncouth (comparative uncouther or more uncouth, superlative uncouthest or most uncouth)

1. (archaic) Unfamiliar, strange, foreign.
   • 1819: Washington Irving, The Sketch Book (The Voyage)

     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.

2. Clumsy, awkward.
3. Unrefined, crude.
   • 1699, Samuel Garth, 'The Dispensary', Canto IV, line 204:

     Harsh words, though pertinent, uncouth appear:
     None please the fancy, who offend the ear.

• fremd
• impolite    [WS]

• uncouthness

• untouch