[f. as prec. + -LY2.] In a strange, unfamiliar, or uncouth manner.
c. 900. Laws K. Ælfred, c. 47 (Liebermann). Þam elðeodeƷan & utancumenan ne læt ðu no uncuðlice wið hine.
c. 1200. Ormin, 14341. Þatt he spacc till hiss moderr þær Þuss unncuþliȝ wiþþ worde.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 4818. Cuih þai wit him na kything tak, And vncuthli to þam he spak.
a. 1366[?]. Chaucer, Rom. Rose, 584. She hadde no thought … but if it were oonly To graythe hir wel and vncouthly.
1423. James I., Kingis Q., ix. Is non estate nor age Ensured, more the prince nor than the page: So vncouthly hir werdes sche deuidith.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 511/1. Vncowthly, extranee.
1535. Stewart, Cron. Scot. (Rolls), II. 396. Out throw the horne ilkone that tyme tha spak Richt vncouthlie, and with sic awfull sound.
1703. Rowe, Fair Penit., V. i. H iij. What Charnel has been rifl’d for these Bones? Fye! this is Pageantry; they look uncouthly.
1777. Sheridan, Sch. Scand., Portrait, 50. She,… Not stiff with prudence, nor uncouthly wild.
1784. Cowper, Task, IV. 276. The shadow … Dancing uncouthly to the quiv’ring flame.
1834. J. Foster, Ess. Evils Pop. Ignorance, 246. These are still further and most uncouthly confounded by the admixture of the ancient heathen notion of fate.
1881. Fowler, Bacon, 160. What are, somewhat uncouthly, called the Idealists, the Materialists, and the Dualists.
