couth

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Adjective

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective couth has 1 sense

couth(s = adj.all) Array - (used facetiously) refined; Array

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CIDE DICTIONARY

couth, imp. & p. p. [See Can, and cf. Uncouth.].

Could; was able; knew or known; understood. [1913 Webster]

"Above all other one Daniel
He loveth, for he couth well
Divine, that none other couth;
To him were all things couth,
As he had it of God's grace." [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

couth, adj. joc. cultured; well-mannered.

Etymology

back-form. as antonym of UNCOUTH