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couth
1[ kooth ]
adjective
- showing or having good manners or sophistication; smooth:
Sending her flowers would be a very couth thing to do.
noun
- good manners; refinement:
to be lacking in couth.
couth
2[ kooth ]
adjective
, Archaic.
- known or acquainted with.
couth
/ kuːθ /
adjective
- facetious.refined
- archaic.familiar; known
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of couth1
Old English cūth known, past participle of cunnan to know; sense 1, back formation from uncouth
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Example Sentences
Then longe folk to go on pilgrimages, And palmers for to seeke strange strands To ferne hallows couth in sundry lands.
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For in the flower of his youth, In sondry wise as he well couth, Of ditties and of songes glade The which he for my sake made.
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Here the expression, no good he ne couth means, he was quite feeble and strengthless.
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Al myten o 25 same inges bettere and more plentiuousely be couth 592 in e moue of e poeple at knowe al is.
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Al myten o same inges bettere and more plentiuousely be couth in e moue of e poeple at knowe al is.
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