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selcouth (SEL-kooth) - adj., strange, unusual, rare, unfamiliar; marvelous, wondrous.
Has something of a Scottish feeling for me, but that may be because I first met it in Walter Scott's novels -- dictionaries don't note any regional usage. This is an old one: in Middle English, it was spelled selcouth, and in Old English selcūþ or seldcūþ, from seld, rarely + cūþ, known (the root of uncouth).
---L.
Has something of a Scottish feeling for me, but that may be because I first met it in Walter Scott's novels -- dictionaries don't note any regional usage. This is an old one: in Middle English, it was spelled selcouth, and in Old English selcūþ or seldcūþ, from seld, rarely + cūþ, known (the root of uncouth).
---L.
