Adjective: couthie
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
| Comparative | couthier |
| Superlative | couthiest |
Perifrastic
Sample Sentences
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she tramped bare-footed the roads to the little school that nestled under the couthy hills. [1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 37:]
Adjectives inflected like couthie
scarce,
smoove,
sombre,
wholsome,
sheene,
bolshie,
baroque,
concrete,
seveare,
comf'table,
shrewde,
'umble,
grislie,
unsubtle,
ungentle,
indiscrete,
couthie,
chavvie,
lissome,
cutesie, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From couth + -y.