unrude

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ rude.

Adjective

unrude (comparative more unrude, superlative most unrude)

1. Not rude.

   Synonym: polite

   • 1648, Robert Herrick, “A Panegerick to Sir Lewis Pemberton”, in Hesperides: Or, The Works both Humane & Divine […], London: […] John Williams, and Francis Eglesfield, and are to be sold by Tho[mas] Hunt, […], →OCLC, page 169:

     Manners knovvs diſtance, and a man unrude / VVo'd ſoon recoile, and not intrude / His Stomach to a ſecond Meale.

Anagrams

• Dunure, unrued