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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.
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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.
Churl definition: a rude, boorish, or surly person.. See examples of CHURL used in a sentence.
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.
Define churl. churl synonyms, churl pronunciation, churl translation, English dictionary definition of churl. n. 1. A rude, boorish person. See Synonyms at boor. 2. A miserly person. 3. a. A ceorl. b. A medieval English peasant. Word History: The Old English word...
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.
Of, like, or befitting a churl; boorish or vulgar. The Old-English laws point out ways by which the churl might rise to thegn's rank, and in the centuries during which the change went on we find mention - complaining mention - both in England and elsewhere, at the court of Charles the Simple and at the court of 'Ethelred, of the rise of new men ...
