UNCOUTH

uncouth. Uncouth, [uncooth] a. aukward, strange, unusual

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Un‐couth″ (ŭn‐ko͞oth″), a. [[OE. uncouth, AS. uncūð unknown, strange: un- (see Un- not) + cūð known, p. p. of cunnan to know. See Can to be able, and cf. Unco, Unked.]] 1. 1. Unknown. “This uncouth errand.” Milton.
To leave the good that I had in hand, In hope of better that was uncouth. Spenser. 2. 2. Uncommon; rare; exquisite; elegant.
Harness . . . so uncouth and so rich. Chaucer. 3. 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.