资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Uncouth \Un*couth"\, a. [OE. uncouth, AS. unc?? unknown,
   strange: un- (see {Un-} not) + c?? known, p. p. of cunnan to
   know. See {Can} to be able, and cf. {Unco}, {Unked}.]
   1. Unknown. [Obs.] ``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. [Obs.]

            Harness . . . so uncouth and so rish. --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.

资料来源 : WordNet®

uncouthness
     n : inelegance by virtue of being an uncouth boor [syn: {boorishness}]