selcouth

[sel-kooth]

adjective

Archaic.

1. strange; uncommon.

Other Word Forms

• selcouthly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of selcouth¹

before 900; Middle English selcouth, Old English seldcūth, equivalent to seld ( an ) seldom + cūth couth ²

Example Sentences

A strange day and a selcouth sight for auld een.

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From among them one could gather out a whole menagerie of the 'selcouth' beasts and birds and creeping things that have been banished from solid earth into the limbo of Fa�ry and Romance.

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A selcouth thing be tha was done.

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