Obs. [var. of UNRIDE a., but prob. associated with RUDE a.]
1. Violent, rough, dreadful.
c. 1400. Laud Troy Bk., 17162. Ther were ȝit … of sqwyers gret multitude, And ȝaff thanne strokes wel vnrude.
1513. Douglas, Æneid, VI. ii. 114. The laithlie flude Cochitus, with his drery bosum vnrude. Ibid., v. 3. Hellis flude of Acheron; With holl bisme, and hiduus swelth wnrude.
1825. Jamieson, s.v., This term is still used in Ayrs[hire], and expl. ‘Base, vile, diabolical; detestable;’ as, ‘unrude bleeries,’ abominable falsehoods.
2. Rude, unmannerly, uncouth.
1561–2. W. Fullwood, in Ballads, etc. (Percy Soc.), 57. For you may see he is in deed An unrude simple man.
1599. B. Jonson, Ev. Man out of Hum., IV. i. The good Gentleman vouchsaft to make him his companion,… and now see how the vnrude Rascall back-bites him! Ibid. (1616), Masque of Christmas, 116. They have need o’ mending: unrude people they are, your Courtiers.
a. 1630. J. Taylor (Water P.), Wit & Mirth, cii. Truly, said the fellow [sc. a countryman], I am no schollar, I am altogether vnrude, and very ingrum.
Hence † Unrudeness, rudeness. Obs.–1
1561–2. W. Fullwood, in Ballads, etc. (Percy Soc.), 57. A Supplication to Eldertonne for Leache’s Unlewdnes, Desiring him to pardone his manifest unrudenes.
