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Definition of Couth
1. Adjective. (used facetiously) refined.
Definition of Couth
1. imp. & p. p. Could; was able; knew or known; understood.
Definition of Couth
1. Adjective. (obsolete) known, renowned ¹
2. Verb. (obsolete except in adjective use) (past participle of can) ¹
3. Adjective. Marked by or possessing a high degree of sophistication; cultured, refined. ¹
4. Noun. Social grace, sophistication; manners; refinement. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Couth
1. sophisticated [adj COUTHER, COUTHEST] / refinement [n -S] - See also: refinement
Lexicographical Neighbors of Couth
Literary usage of Couth
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"Sir" (quod he) " sith 6rst I couth Haue any manner wit fro youth, Or kindly
vnderstanding, To comprehend in any thing What Loue was, in mine owne wit, ..."
2. History of English Poetry from the Twelfth to the Close of the Sixteenth Century by Thomas Warton, William Carew Hazlitt, Richard Price (1871)
"... Syne out agayn at him he couth it call, And he in built fone hynt it by the hair,
... couth fair, That haul hall he had fet in a fyr ; Him thocht he faw ..."
3. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1904)
"... to have been initiated and determined by a series of more or less parallel
faults, which extend from somewhere couth of the Taurus range to the junction ..."
4. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood (1865)
"So from the equivalent AS. cuth, known, we have Sc. couth, ... own kintra growth
Did make them very braw and unco couth. Uncouth is the opposite of quaint; ..."
5. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: To which is Prefixed, a by John Jamieson (1879)
"0, ble.isins on thy couth, lord John ; Weel'e me to see this day ; For mickle
bae I done and dreed ; But weel does this repay. dicen, to speak. ..."
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