_Unkid_ (Vol. viii., p. 353.).--_Unketh_, _uncouth_, are different writings
of the same word. Jamieson has _uncoudy_, which he explains, dreary; and
_coudy_, i. e. couth, couthy, nearly allied to _cuth_, notus (see _couth_
(could), _uncouth_, _unketh_, in Richardson; and _coudy_, _uncoudy_, in
Jamieson). Lye has "_Uncwid_, solitary; whence, perhaps, the not entirely
obsolete _unkid_." Grose also tells us that, in the north, _uncuffs_ and
_uncuds_ mean news. It is very plain that these are all the same word,
differently written and applied.