▪ I. † unˈrude, a.1 Obs.
[var. of unride a., but prob. associated with rude a.]
1. Violent, rough, dreadful.
| c 1400 Laud Troy Bk. 17162 Ther were ȝit..of sqwyers gret multitude, And ȝaff thanne strokes wel vnrude. 1513 Douglas æneid vi. ii. 114 The laithlie flude Cochitus, with his drery bosum vnrude. Ibid. v. 3 Hellis flude of Acheron; With holl bisme, and hiduus swelth wnrude. 1825 Jamieson s.v., This term is still used in Ayrs[hire], and expl. ‘Base, vile, diabolical; detestable;’ as, ‘unrude bleeries,’ abominable falsehoods. |
2. Rude, unmannerly, uncouth.
| 1561–2 W. Fullwood in Ballads, etc. (Percy Soc.) 57 For you may see he is in deed An unrude simple man. 1599 B. Jonson Ev. Man out of Hum. iv. i, The good Gentleman vouchsaft to make him his companion,..and now see how the vnrude Rascall back-bites him! 1616 ― Masque of Christmas 116 They have need o' mending: unrude people they are, your Courtiers. a 1630 J. Taylor (Water P.) Wit & Mirth cii, Truly, said the fellow [sc. a countryman], I am no schollar, I am altogether vnrude, and very ingrum. |
Hence † unˈrudeness, rudeness. Obs.—1
| 1561–2 W. Fullwood in Ballads, etc. (Percy Soc.) 57 A Supplication to Eldertonne for Leache's Unlewdnes, Desiring him to pardone his manifest unrudenes. |
▪ II. unˈrude, a.2
[un-1 7.]
Not rude; mannerly.
| 1648 Herrick Hesper., Panegerick to Pemberton 31 Manners knowes distance, and a man unrude Wo'd soon recoile, and not intrude His Stomach to a second Meale. |