- When you're at a fancy dinner party, if you burp after you eat, use your fingers to spread butter on your bread, and hang spoons from your nose, people will probably say you are uncouth, meaning vulgar and ill-mannered.
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- adj. 笨拙的；粗野的；不舒适的；陌生的
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1. After a tussle with journalists during the campaign, cartoonists played on his bulbous nose and portrayed him as an uncouth pig.
在与新闻记者发生争斗后，一些漫画家曾经将他描绘为“笨拙的猪”。
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2. He manages to discard that youthful, that uncouth, affection for chastity that had been such a part of his imagination, and he marries a young woman named Mary Powell.
他抛弃了那个年少无知，粗鄙的，对于纯洁的热爱，这曾是他想象的一部分，并且他和一个名为玛丽鲍威尔的女人结婚了。
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3. Maybe he still dreams of bridging the partisan divide; maybe he fears the ire of pundits who consider blaming your predecessor for current problems uncouth — if you’re a Democrat.
也许他还在梦想着弥合党派的分歧；也许他怕那些认为将现在的问题归结于前任是愚蠢的的权威人士的愤怒——如果你是个民主党人的话。
- uncouth (adj.) Old English uncuð "unknown, strange, unusual; uncertain, unfamiliar; unfriendly, unkind, rough," from un- (1) "not" + cuð "known, well-known," past participle of cunnan "to know" (see can (v.1)), from PIE root *gno- "to know." 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 ukuðr, Gothic unkunþs, Sanskrit ajnatah, Armenian ancanaut', Greek agnotos, Old Irish ingnad "unknown."
un·couth / ʌnˈkuːθ ; NAmE ʌnˈkuːθ / adjective (of a person or their behaviour 人或其行为 ) rude or socially unacceptable 粗鲁的；无礼的；无教养的 SYN coarse ◆ uncouth laughter 粗野的笑声 ◆ an uncouth young man 一个无教养的年轻人 un·couth / ʌnˈkuːθ ; NAmE ʌnˈkuːθ /
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