#092 - Selcouth

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This week's word is

Selcouth

sel-ˌküth


ADJECTIVE

 

Selcouth (comparative more selcouth, superlative most selcouth)

 

(now rare) Strange, unusual, rare; unfamiliar; marvelous, wondrous.

Etymology
From Middle English selcouth, from Old English selcūþ, seldcūþ (“unusual, unwonted, little known, unfamiliar, novel, rare”), from seld- (“rarely”) + cūþ (“known”); equivalent to seld +‎ couth.

From Wiktionary