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couths

couths is the plural of couth.

Meaning of couth

Noun

couth (usually uncountable, plural couths)

  1. (usually) Social grace, refinement, sophistication; etiquette, manners.
    • That man has no couth.
  2. (rare, usually) A person with social graces; a refined or sophisticated person.
    • We transformed the uncouths into couths, the unkempts into kempts, the inerts into erts! We did it all by speaking to teen-agers on their own terms and in their own language.[1967, Bernice Fitz-Gibbon, Macy’s, Gimbels, and Me: How to Earn $90,000 a Year in Retail Advertising, New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 91

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Questions about couths

What is couths the plural of?
Couths is the plural of couth.

Words near couths in the dictionary

  1. couthie
  2. couthier
  3. couthiest
  4. couthiness
  5. couthless
  6. couths
  7. couthy
  8. coutil
  9. coutilier
  10. coutiliers
  11. coutille

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