uncouth

un-KOOTHadj

Meaning lacking good manners or refinement

Memory hook the UNCOUTH YOUTH. It rhymes: the youth with no manners is uncouth. Jonah stomps into the quiet library in muddy boots, yelling for his friend. He is uncouth.

Talking loudly on the phone all through the movie was uncouth.

In context In the old story, the uncouth giant wiped his hands on the tablecloth and stomped across the clean floor in muddy boots, to the queen’s horror.

Similar rude, crude, coarse, ill-mannered

Opposite refined, polished, urbane

From Old English uncuth, “unknown, strange”: un (not) + cuth (known).

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