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coarse slang. A stupid, contemptible, or annoying person (esp. a man or boy). Also used as a general term of abuse. rare before 20th cent.
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.
churl. 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.
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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30 Αυγ 2024 · churl (plural churls) (feudalism, obsolete except historical) A free peasant (as opposed to a serf) of the lowest rank, below an earl and a thane; a freeman; also (more generally), a person without royal or noble status; a commoner. A bondman or serf. (by extension) (derogatory) A rough, surly, ill-bred person; a boor. [from 14th c.]
Churl definition: A rude, boorish person. Ptolemy catalogued 8 stars, Tycho 7 and Hevelius Of these, the seven brightest (a of the 1st magnitude, 0, y, of the 2nd magnitude, and b of the 3rd magnitude) constitute one of the most characteristic figures in the northern sky; they have received various names - Septentriones, the wagon, plough, dipper and Charles's wain (a corruption of " churl's ...
