couth
1showing or having good manners or sophistication; smooth: Sending her flowers would be a very couth thing to do.
good manners; refinement: to be lacking in couth.
Origin of couth
1Words Nearby couth
Other definitions for couth (2 of 2)
known or acquainted with.
Origin of couth
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How to use couth in a sentence
Then longe folk to go on pilgrimages, And palmers for to seeke strange strands To ferne hallows couth in sundry lands.
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.
Here the expression, no good he ne couth means, he was quite feeble and strengthless.
Torrent of Portyngale | UnknownAl myten o 25 same inges bettere and more plentiuousely be couth 592 in e moue of e poeple at knowe al is.
Chaucer's Translation of Boethius's 'De Consolatione Philosophiae' | Geoffrey ChaucerAl myten o same inges bettere and more plentiuousely be couth in e moue of e poeple at knowe al is.
Chaucer's Translation of Boethius's 'De Consolatione Philosophiae' | Geoffrey Chaucer
British Dictionary definitions for couth
/ (kuːθ) /
facetious refined
archaic familiar; known
Origin of couth
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