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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.
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.
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.
Churl definition: a rude, boorish, or surly person.. See examples of CHURL used in a sentence.
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 ...
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...
