Associations to the word «Uncouth»

Wiktionary

UNCOUTH, adjective. (archaic) Unfamiliar, strange, foreign.
UNCOUTH, adjective. Clumsy, awkward.
UNCOUTH, adjective. Unrefined, crude.

Dictionary definition

UNCOUTH, adjective. Lacking refinement or cultivation or taste; "he had coarse manners but a first-rate mind"; "behavior that branded him as common"; "an untutored and uncouth human being"; "an uncouth soldier--a real tough guy"; "appealing to the vulgar taste for violence"; "the vulgar display of the newly rich".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats