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adj. - (chiefly Scottish) agreeable and genial.

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Usage examples (19)
  • That's if he can find an irritatingly couthy Scots phrase to crowbar into his soundbite, of course ...
  • Drumtochty hes an idea o 'itsel', and peety the man 'at tries tae drive them, but they' re couthy.
  • If they had met on the shores of the central lake of Africa, they could scarcely have been more couthy together.
  • It is a long walk through the snow, but there is a kindly, couthy smell from the woods, and at sight of the squares of light in his home, weariness departs from a...
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