uncouth

FREQ #30624

a. 笨拙的, 粗野的, 荒凉的

发音

/ʌnˈkuːθ/

词形变化

uncouther 比较级 uncouther uncouthest more uncouth 比较级 uncouthest 最高级 most uncouth 最高级

别名

uncooth

释义与例句

adj.
  1. 1.

    Unfamiliar, strange, foreign.

    陌生的

    古体
  2. 2.

    Clumsy, awkward.

  3. 3.

    Unrefined, crude.

    粗野的

    I don't want to associate with uncouth people.

词汇关系

形容词

同义词 3

common vulgar coarse

近义相关 1

unrefined

词源

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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