uncouth: [OE] Uncouth originally meant ‘unknown’ or ‘unfamiliar’ – a sense which survived into the 17th century (‘Now the whole superficies of the earth as well uncouth as discovered, is but a little point’, John Boys, Works 1616). ‘Crude, awkward’ is a secondary development, first recorded in the 16th century. The word was formed in the prehistoric Germanic period from the prefix un- ‘not’ and the past participle of *kunnan ‘know’ (whose closest living English relative is could). => could
uncouth (adj.)
Old English uncue "unknown, strange, unusual; uncertain, unfamiliar; unfriendly, unkind, rough," from un- (1) "not" + cue "known, well-known," past participle of cunnan "to know" (see can (v.1)). Meaning "strange, crude, clumsy" is first recorded 1510s. The compound (and the thing it describes) widespread in IE languages, such as Latin ignorantem, Old Norse ukuer, Gothic unkunts, Sanskrit ajnatah, Armenian ancanaut', Greek agnotos, Old Irish ingnad "unknown."
例文
1. an uncouth young man
教養のない若者
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2.She may embarrass you with her uncouth behavior.
彼女の乱暴な行動はあなたを気まずい思いにさせるかもしれません。
3.To a Japanese，spilling anything is uncouth .
日本人にとって、何をこぼすのも非文明的だ。
4.People turned to look after him，so uncouth was his shambling figure.
「何の役に立つの？「彼は、私はもう終わりだと思っています。私はこのすべてを抜け出すつもりです。
5.He made the most uncouth and clumsy gestures of delight.