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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.
The meaning of CHURL is ceorl. Middle English cherl "non-noble person (whether free or bound), ill-bred person, boor, fellow," going back to Old English ceorl "male person, man, married man, countryman, member of the lowest class of freemen," going back to Germanic *kerla-"man, freeman" (whence also Old Frisian tzerl, tzirl, kerl "man, servant," Middle Dutch kerel, kerl "freeman below the rank ...
A churl is a rude or nasty person. The basketball player who's constantly jabbing opponents with his elbows and deliberately tripping them is a churl.
Churl definition: a rude, boorish, or surly person.. See examples of CHURL used in a sentence.
churl. (tʃɜːl) n. 1. a surly ill-bred person. 2. (Historical Terms) archaic a farm labourer. 3. (Historical Terms) a variant spelling of ceorl. [Old English ceorl; related to Old Norse karl, Middle Low German kerle, Greek gerōn old man]
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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