different between clownish vs untaught

English

From clown +? -ish.

clownish (comparative more clownish, superlative most clownish)

Resembling or characteristic of a circus clown; comical, ridiculous.
- 1998, Bryan Senn, Drums of Terror: Voodoo in the Cinema
  Even worse, the zombies' clownish makeup, with a stark white base and black shoe polish around the eyes, looks amateurish.
- 2014, Jacob Steinberg, "Wigan shock Manchester City in FA Cup again to reach semi-finals", The Guardian, 9 March 2014:
  Once again, City's defending was clownish. James McArthur drove into the area on the left and pulled a low cross towards the far post, where the horribly timid Gaël Clichy allowed Perch to bundle the ball past Costel Pantilimon.
- 2005, Laura Barton, The Guardian, 14 May 2005:
  Indeed, when in close quarters to Rooney, it must prove almost irresistible to stick a plastic moustache and silly clownish shoes on the potato-headed fool.
(now rare) Pertaining to peasants; rustic.
(now rare) Uncultured, boorish; rough, coarse.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.1:
  Large were his limbes, and terrible his looke, / And in his clownish hand a sharp bore speare he shooke.
- 1815, Jane Austen, Emma, Volume I, Chapter 4:
  "He is very plain, undoubtedly—remarkably plain:—but that is nothing compared with his entire want of gentility. I had no right to expect much, and I did not expect much; but I had no idea that he could be so very clownish, so totally without air. I had imagined him, I confess, a degree or two nearer gentility."

un- +? taught

untaught (comparative more untaught, superlative most untaught)

Not taught; uneducated.
- c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Again?t venemous tongues enpoy?oned with ?claunder and fal?e detractions &c.:
  My ?coles are not for unthriftes untaught,
  For frantick faitours half mad and half ?traught;
  But my learning is of another degree
  To taunt theim like liddrons, lewde as thei bee.
- 2005, Christine Alexander, Juliet McMaster, The Child Writer from Austen to Woolf (page 58)
  The gazing, the spying, and the ability to divine the eternal in the vivid manifestations of nature, here attributed to the young child, seem to be realised in this relatively untaught child of the woods of Oregon.
(not comparable) Not taught; not conveyed by means of instruction.
- 1937, Manly Wade Wellman, School for the Unspeakable
  What they used to teach here
  Now goes untaught.

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