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rude

UK/ɹuːd/ US/ɹud/ common slang

adjective

1.

socially incorrect in behavior

  • “resentment flared at such an unmannered intrusion”
2.

(of persons) lacking in refinement or grace

3.

lacking civility or good manners

  • “want nothing from you but to get away from your uncivil tongue” Willa Cather
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4.

(used especially of commodities) in the natural unprocessed condition

  • “natural yogurt”
  • “natural produce”
  • “raw wool”
  • “raw sugar”
  • “bales of rude cotton”
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5.

belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness

  • “the crude weapons and rude agricultural implements of early man”
  • “primitive movies of the 1890s”
  • “primitive living conditions in the Appalachian mountains”
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Origin

From Middle English rude, from Old French rude, ruide, from Latin rudis (“rough, raw, rude, wild, untilled”).

Phrases

  • rude awakening
  • rude boy
  • rude word

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