Word: uncouthness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Flames also represent "the other guys," the uncouth opponents outside of the ECAC. In the past, these folks haven't given Harvard much respect...
...Stanley. He's certainly got the physique for it, but he's also got the charm down pat. After all, if Stanley's such a boor, why would anyone fall-and remain-madly in love with him? Gardner answers that question by making himself attractive and intelligent underneath the uncouth veneer. Ethan Mintz as a friend of Stanley's who falls in love with Blanche is equally superb, though his accent is practically nonexistent...
...attacked in print, on the radio and on television. At the hockey games, I was derided on the electronic scoreboard, the subject of abusive chants by the 6000 fans present and the object of a banner reading, "Nick Wurf is uncouth...
Nicknamers also seem to have a streak of anthropological stereotyping in them. Lots of nicknames are ethnic groups that one supposes, are supposed to be especially uncouth: the Fighting Irish (Notre Dame), the Fighting Scots (Wooster), the Vandals (Idaho), the Tartars (Wayne State) the Wasps (Emory & Henry) and, of course, the Indians, an increasingly unpopular nickname...
...Wurf's less-then-complimentary comments caused a small furor in the town of 100,000. He was lambasted in the local press, highlighted on Duluth evening television news, and the night of the hockey game, an enormous banner was displayed by some fans, proclaiming that "Nick Wurf is uncouth...