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Audio Help [kooth] Pronunciation Key Facetious.

–adjective

1.	showing or having good manners or sophistication; smooth: Sending her flowers would be a very couth thing to do.

–noun

2.	good manners; refinement: to be lacking in couth.

[Origin: 1895–1900; back formation from uncouth

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couth2

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–adjective Archaic.

known or acquainted with.

[Origin: bef. 1000; ME, OE cūth ptp. of cunnan to know (see can², could)

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couth Audio Help   (kōōth) Pronunciation Key
adj.   Marked by or possessing a high degree of sophistication; refined: "Many picnics manage without this sophistication, but we like to be couth and feel that the delicacies of gracious living enhance the chances" (John Gould).

n.   Refinement; sophistication: "The man has no couth" (Los Angeles Times).

[Back-formation from uncouth.]

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couth

O.E. cuðe "known," pp. of cunnan (see can) died out as such 16c., but the word was reborn 1896, with a new sense of "cultured, refined," as a back-formation from uncouth (q.v.). The O.E. word forms the first element in the man's proper name Cuthbert, lit. "famous-bright."

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couth
adjective
(used facetiously) refined

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Couth

Couth\ (k??th), imp. & p. p. of Can. [See Can, and cf. Uncouth.] Could; was able; knew or known; understood. [Obs.]

Above all other one Daniel He loveth, for he couth well Divine, that none other couth; To him were all thing couth, As he had it of God's grace. --Gower.

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