One word

Couth

Word of the day on 21 August 2010.

Winning tweet

49
Points
asim7asim
Mr Couth is now known for his refined elegance of levity. #artwiculate

Good uses

  • lagadu123
    48
    Points
    Two ways to eat a ripe peach - couth or uncouth. Couth is somewhat cleaner but you don’t get all the juith.
  • TiddK
    44
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    Couth walks into a bar, picks Innocuous up from the floor, and charms Jostle into making an apology . #artwiculate
  • MaltaGoddess
    43
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    Couth can of course be in the manner a man carries himself. But for me, it resides (or not) always in his heart.
  • arkadeep2008
    42
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    A lack of couth is nothing to be proud of. #artwiculate
  • FrankSiddarta
    42
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    I'd rather be a sparrow than a snail. Yes I would, if I couth I surely wouth. I'd rather be a forest than a street, if I couth I surely wood
  • marcosarroyos
    42
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    Lady Strawberry Jam sang "Voulez vou couth-er avec moi?" It had a sophisticated following.
  • navinsasikumar
    41
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    What do you call a couth interpreter? A Polish translator #heteronym
  • RortlyGoblins
    40
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    A couth coven chants ~ in a goblin glade ~ in a hollow ~ at the bottom ~ of your garden #gogyohka #gobyohka
  • chrisloft
    39
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    Twas a young lad from Agroof Who thought he was living proof That a man o the town With quite some renown Would be fine upstanding and couth
  • Krafti_kit
    39
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    Couth Airlines: Polite and refined while you fly and unwind. #artwiculate #finallyadecentairline
  • Ysabeluna
    39
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    \ your couth tongue & poetry \ your gentility \ your savoir-faire \ & savvy ambiguity \ all these endear you to me\ #artwiculate #gogyohka
  • beezknez
    37
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    The stuck up pinky ~ has a handle on manners ~ far couth ~ then the finger ~ thats just stuck up #artwiculate
  • DarkHaikuMoon
    37
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    Streets of couth - young workers - striding - homewards - in a dream #gogyohka
  • chemingineer
    37
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    Smart & Couth / Prime of youth / Super sleuth / In search of truth / Bedded Miss Ruth / Lost his tooth / And turned uncouth / #artwiculate
  • MaxRaunchiness
    35
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    Really, there is nothing so couth as a pearl necklace. I love giving ladies jewelry.
  • operasauvage
    35
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    I'm the princess who was rejected by the prince.He says "Couth ladies don't kiss a frog"#artwiculate
  • nedmw
    33
    Points
    How was Monsieur Couth assassinated? Poise-on.
  • runheidi
    32
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    Couth couth is my fave Moroccan meal. (It's a highly cultured food, especially when served with yogurt.) #artwiculate
  • minibtweet
    32
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    Couth table manners an etiquette not needed to at the uncouth urbanspoon #Artwiculate
  • 19ish
    31
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    Naughty Nancy~quite an imp; flaunted wishes of her pimp! He told her make out in phone booth, but she felt it was not couth!
  • harrarp
    31
    Points
    And the best part is yet to come: one doesn't need teeth to savor couth couth. Or good manners for that matter.
  • prashanthm18
    31
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    remembering your couth ~ somehow I kept calling ~ an uncouth lover myself. #haikuwordgame #artwiculate
  • tama001
    30
    Points
    under smiling skies / couth cat's yielding pandiculation / yawn a meow . #artwiculate
  • mazpow
    30
    Points
    The bugger of it is that you can't fake couth.
  • soarski
    28
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    A couth martini is made with little vermouth and much Puccini. #artwiculate
  • dsceiorg
    28
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    Collective nouns: A cheek of hill folk; A belly of valley folk; A couth of high-falutin‘ city folk #artwiculate
  • silverne
    28
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    under these Chestnut trees/ sunshine of the summer is mild/ as a smile of an old ill solitary couth shaman #poetry #artwiculate
  • AdeleWard
    28
    Points
    The truth may not be couth - the truth often comes from the mouth of an uncouth child #Artwiculate
  • i2Haiku
    27
    Points
    If I have no couth / forgive me dear / all I know / of fine things / is you #artwiculate #gogyohka
  • wb1949
    27
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    It's thought that the couth cannibal always says grace before dinner. Not many have reported this as fact, however.
  • SJHatzi
    27
    Points
    Mykonian sunset. And there he was, on narrow Cycladic street, roses behind him. Waiting for me. The couth made disarming.
  • ariandalen
    27
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    Beneath the full moon~We meet in hidden grove~Slake our basic needs~Stripped of couth habits~Our true selves sing. #artwiculate
  • ChrisTwitery
    26
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    In a couth of evening stillness - I hear the laughter of your voice - slipping through the sun beams - where fern and lichen rest
  • ultracutebot
    26
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    forsooth t'would behoove you to be couth whilst sitting in that diner booth if you mock Ol'Ruth she'll bust your tooth
  • Lorcdy
    25
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    Too bad Shakespeare didn't think to say that couth to urbane is quite near akin. #artwiculate
  • SimoneWild
    25
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    'Uncouth' is so common / a word to use /yet 'couth' is rarely heard / don't you find / english to be / at times /quite absurd? #artwiculate
  • BurningHawk1969
    24
    Points
    A petite lass from Deluth, when scolded for not acting couth said heavens above, sure sex isn't love, but what can you do in a phone booth?
  • carolstett
    24
    Points
    As my father always said if our table manners were lacking, "Ain't you got no couth?" #artwiculate
  • goldenskye
    24
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    When youth are couth adults pause and wonder, "Why?"
  • lawyergirl3
    24
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    Law of the jungle: a cheetah shall not cheat on his wife ~ But a tiger-couth . . .wood.
  • cogitavis
    23
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    Couth couture, at last the emperor had new clothes. #artwiculate
  • TidKid
    23
    Points
    @artwiculate The word for today is couth. Oh, for fuck's sake, it IS.
  • OddlyStarry
    23
    Points
    Somehow Max's tweets are very couth, but if I tried to tweet like that, people would recoil in horror! :)

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