Un‐couth″ (ŭn‐ko͞oth″), a. [OE. uncouth, AS. uncūð unknown, strange: un- (see Un- not) + cūð known, p. p. of cunnan to know. See Can to be able, and cf. Unco, Unked.] 1. Unknown. “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.
Harness... so uncouth and so rich. 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.