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There are seven meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun churl, one of which is labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.
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A churl (Old High German karal), in its earliest Old English (Anglo-Saxon) meaning, was simply "a man" or more particularly a "free man", [1] but the word soon came to mean "a non-servile peasant ", still spelled ċeorl (e), and denoting the lowest rank of freemen.
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The basketball player who's constantly jabbing opponents with his elbows and deliberately tripping them is a churl. Churl comes from the Old English ceorl, "peasant," and originally that's exactly what it meant: a commoner, or person who didn't belong to the nobility.
noun. ˈchər (-ə)l. Synonyms of churl. 1. : ceorl. 2. : a medieval peasant. 3. : rustic, countryman. 4. a. : a rude ill-bred person. b. : a stingy morose person. Synonyms. bumpkin. chawbacon. clodhopper. cornball. countryman. hayseed. hick. provincial. rube. rustic. yokel. See all Synonyms & Antonyms in Thesaurus. Examples of churl in a Sentence.
