Definition of uncouth

sustain Definition: (verb) to keep in existence or continue. Petersons.com

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un·couth    (n-kth) KEY  

ADJECTIVE:

1. Crude; unrefined.
2. Awkward or clumsy; ungraceful.
3. Archaic Foreign; unfamiliar.

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ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English, unknown, strange, from Old English uncth : un-, not ; see un- ¹ + cth, known; see gn- in Indo-European roots

OTHER FORMS:
un·couthly (Adverb), un·couthness (Noun)

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