2012_03_17 selcouth 奇怪 \SEL-kooth\, adjective: Strange; uncommon.

Word of the Day for Saturday, March 17, 2012
selcouth \SEL-kooth\, adjective:
Strange; uncommon.
Its English is not more quaint than that of De Brunne himself; it contains no names more selcouth than he himself is in the custom of introducing…
 -- Sir Walter Scott, The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott
To whom there's hardly any selcouth thing, but seems a juggling trick, that would delude their fancies with an empty wondering; therefore against it they with thundering words do ring.
 -- George Starkey, An Exposition Upon the Preface of Sir George Ripley
Selcouth has odd Old English roots. It is related to the word seldom and the Old English word couth meaning "to know."

selcouth\ SEL-kooth\，形容詞：

奇怪;少見。

它的英文是不超過德Brunne自己，古樸;它包含沒有名字更selcouth比他自己是在引進的自定義...
- 沃爾特·斯科特爵士，沃爾特·斯科特爵士的詩歌創作

誰還有幾乎沒有任何selcouth的事情，但似乎是一個雜耍伎倆，空琢磨，會欺騙自己的幻想，因此對他們的雷鳴般的話，做響。
- 喬治·斯塔基，一個博覽會後，喬治·里普利先生序“

selcouth有奇古英語根。它涉及到很少的字和舊英文單詞couth意義“就知道了。”