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Uncouth vs Scurviness - What's the difference?

uncouth | scurviness |

As an adjective uncouth

is (archaic) unfamiliar, strange, foreign.

As a noun scurviness is

the quality or state of being scurvy; vileness; meanness.

uncouth

English

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • (archaic) Unfamiliar, strange, foreign.
  • * 1819 : , The Sketch Book (The Voyage)
    • There was a delicious sensation of mingled security and awe with which I looked down, from my giddy height, on the monsters of the deep at their uncouth gambols.
  • Clumsy, awkward.
  • Unrefined, crude.
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    Derived terms

    * uncouthness

    scurviness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The quality or state of being scurvy; vileness; meanness.

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