uncouth

英 [ʌn'kuːθ] 美 [ʌn'kʊθ]

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※ 提供单词"uncouth"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。

uncouth 粗鲁的

un-, 不，非，couth, 有礼貌的，词源同can, could.

uncouth: uncouth: [OE] Uncouth originally meant ‘unknown’ or ‘unfamiliar’ – a sense which survived into the 17th century (‘Now the whole superficies of the earth as well uncouth as discovered, is but a little point’, John Boys, Works 1616). ‘Crude, awkward’ is a secondary development, first recorded in the 16th century. The word was formed in the prehistoric Germanic period from the prefix un- ‘not’ and the past participle of *kunnan ‘know’ (whose closest living English relative is could).
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uncouth (adj.): Old English uncuð "unknown, strange, unusual; uncertain, unfamiliar; unfriendly, unkind, rough," from un- (1) "not" + cuð "known, well-known," past participle of cunnan "to know" (see can (v.1)). Meaning "strange, crude, clumsy" is first recorded 1510s. The compound (and the thing it describes) widespread in IE languages, such as Latin ignorantem, Old Norse ukuðr, Gothic unkunþs, Sanskrit ajnatah, Armenian ancanaut', Greek agnotos, Old Irish ingnad "unknown."

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4. People turned to look after him , so uncouth was his shambling figure.: “有什么用呢?"他想, "我已经全完了.我要摆脱这一切了.

5. He made the most uncouth and clumsy gestures of delight.: 他做出的表示快乐的动作也是极笨拙、极难看的.