2024-02-11

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#092 - Selcouth

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