couthless

English

Adjective

couthless (comparative more couthless, superlative most couthless)

1. (obsolete) Uncouth.
   • 1865, Richard Francis Burton, “Dirge.”, in Stone Talk (Λιθοφωνημα / Lithophonema): Being Some of the Marvellous Sayings of a Petral Portion of Fleet Street, London, to One Doctor Polyglott, Ph.D., London: Hardwicke, Robert, pages 20–21:

     Half-handed thing with double brain, / With brow protruding all before, / Trachea formed to squeak and roar, / With shortened arms and thumbless feet, / Circular paunch, and rounded seat; / That chattered with such couthless sound, / And walked, not crawled, upon the ground.