cubbishadj.
/ˈkʌbɪʃ/ Resembling a cub; awkward, uncouth, unpolished.
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the world > people > person > young person > [adjective] > young and inexperienced
younga1200
callow1580
coltisha1586
pen-feathered1598
kitling1604
unfledgeda1616
codlinged1661
calfish1772
cubbish1819
vealy1890
preppy1900
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > [adjective] > ill-mannered > unrefined
boistousc1300
untheweda1325
uplandisha1387
unaffiled1390
rudea1393
knavishc1405
peoplisha1425
clubbedc1440
blunt1477
lob?1507
robust1511
borel1513
carterly1519
clubbish1530
rough?1531
rustical?1532
incondite1539
agrestc1550
rusticc1550
brute1555
lobcocka1556
loutisha1556
carterlike1561
boorish1562
ruggedc1565
lobbish1567
loutlike1567
sowish1570
clownish1581
unrefined1582
impolished1583
homespun1590
transalpinea1592
swaddish1593
unpolished1594
untutored1595
swabberly1596
tartarous1602
porterly1603
lobcocked1606
lob-like1606
cluster-fisted1611
agrestic1617
inurbane1623
unelevated1627
incult1628
unbrushed1640
vulgar1643
unhewed1644
unsmooth1648
hirsute1658
loutardly1658
unhewn1659
roughsome?c1660
sordid1668
inhumanea1680
coarse1699
brutal1709
ramgunshoch1721
tramontane1740
uncouth1740
no-nationa1756
unurbane1760
turnipy1792
rudas1802
common1804
cubbish1819
clodhopping1828
vulgarian1833
cloddish1844
unkempt1846
bush1851
vulgarish1860
rodney1866
crude1876
ignorant1886
yobby1910
nekulturny1932
oikish1959
yobbish1966
ocker1972
down and dirty1977
1819 W. Scott Let. 3 Oct. (1933) V. 506 He was shy and cubbish, and would not [come].
1888 J. W. Burgon Lives Twelve Good Men I. iii. 338 The most awkward and cubbish..of the youths present.
Derivatives
ˈcubbishly adv.
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the world > people > person > young person > [adverb]
youngly1533
coltishly1561
cubbishly1883
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > [adverb] > unmannerly > roughly or with lack of refinement
homelyc1390
rudelyc1405
greata1425
swinishly1542
clubbishly1548
carterly1556
homelily1556
brutishly1580
loutishly1580
boorishly1605
brutely1605
inurbanely1610
mechanically1613
porterly1659
coarsely1678
coarse1680
brutally1824
vulgarly1831
crudely1881
cubbishly1883
yobbishly1984
1883 J. W. Sherer At Home & in India 85 He cubbishly returned it.
ˈcubbishness n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > people > person > young person > [noun] > young and inexperienced person > immaturity of young person
greenness?c1425
unripenessa1500
greenhead1588
coltishnessa1657
callowness1817
cubbishness1828
vealiness1895
preppiness1977
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > [noun] > unmannerliness > unrefined manners or behaviour
villainyc1340
churlhood1382
rudenessc1405
boistousness1526
uplandishness1530
rusticity1531
coarseness1541
loutishnessa1556
grossness1563
boorishness1570
rusticality1572
clownishness1576
bouerie1577
roughness1581
clownery1589
swinishness1591
peasantryc1592
inurbanity1598
community1600
rusticalnessa1603
clownagea1637
wildness1639
vulgarness1642
unpolishedness1652
brutism1687
mismanners1697
unpoliteness1700
brutality1709
mechanicism1710
indelicacy1712
untameness1727
vulgarism1749
vulgaritya1774
shag1785
piggishness1796
cubbishness1828
sylvanity1832
rusticness1838
plebeianness1840
swainishness1854
baboonery1857
yahooism1862
slanginess1865
bucolicism1879
vulgarianism1920
outbackery1961
yobbishness1969
ockerism1974
blokeishness1989
1828 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 24 212 One would think a gentleman might shake hands with a familiar friend without any symptoms of cubbishness.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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adj.1819