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churl

Noun

∙ A rustic; a countryman or labourer; a peasant.
∙ A rough, surly, ill-bred person; a boor.
∙ A selfish miser; an illiberal person; a niggard.
∙ a freedman, ranked below a thane but above a thrall Theodism

BABYLON ENGLISH
churl n.
rude person; person from the country

HENGLISH - ADVANCED VERSION
churl
churl
\churl\, a. churlish; rough; selfish. [obs.]
churl
\churl\ (?), n. [as. ceorl a freeman of the lowest rank, man, husband; akin to d. karel, kerel, g. kerl, dan. & sw. karl, icel. karl, and to the e. proper name charles (orig., man, male), and perh. to skr. jāra lover. cf. carl, charles's wain.]
1. a rustic; a countryman or laborer. "a peasant or churl." your rank is all reversed; let men of cloth bow to the stalwart churls in overalls.
2. a rough, surly, ill-bred man; a boor. a churl's courtesy rarely comes, but either for gain or falsehood. sidney.
3. a selfish miser; an illiberal person; a niggard. like to some rich churl hoarding up his pelf.
churl
n
1. a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement [syn: peasant, barbarian, boor, goth, tyke, tike]

2. a selfish person who is unwilling to give or spend [syn: niggard, skinflint, scrooge]

3. a bad-tempered person [syn: grouch, grump, crank, crosspatch]

churl
in isa. 32:5 (r.v. marg., "crafty"), means a deceiver. in 1 sam. 25:3, the word churlish denotes a man that is coarse and ill-natured, or, as the word literally means, "hard." the same greek word as used by the lxx. here is found in matt. 25:24, and there is rendered "hard."

WORDNET 2.0
churl
Noun
1. a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement
(synonym) peasant, barbarian, boor, Goth, tyke, tike
(hypernym) unpleasant person, disagreeable person
2. a selfish person who is unwilling to give or spend
(synonym) niggard, skinflint, scrooge
(hypernym) hoarder
(hyponym) pinchgut
3. a bad-tempered person
(synonym) grouch, grump, crank, crosspatch
(hypernym) unpleasant person, disagreeable person
(hyponym) crab, crabby person

ENGLISH WIKIPEDIA - THE FREE ENCYCLOPEDIA
Churl
A churl (etymologically the same name as Charles / Carl and Old High German karal), in its earliest Old English (Anglo-Saxon) meaning, was simply "a man", but the word soon came to mean "a non-servile peasant", still spelled ceorl(e), and denoting the lowest rank of freemen. According to the Oxford English Dictionary it later came to mean the opposite of the nobility and royalty, "a common person". Says Chadwick: This meaning held through the 15th century, but by then the word had taken on negative overtone, meaning "a country person" and then "a low fellow". By the 19th century, a new and pejorative meaning arose, "one inclined to uncivil or loutish behaviour" (cf. the pejorative sense of the term boor, whose original meaning of "country person" or "farmer" is preserved in Dutch and Afrikaans boer and German Bauer, although the latter has its own pejorative connotations such as those prompting its use as the name for the chess piece known in English as a pawn. Also the word villain - derived from Anglo-French and Old French and originally meaning "farmhand" - had gone through a similar process to reach at its present meaning).
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churl

Noun

∙ A rustic; a countryman or labourer; a peasant.
∙ A rough, surly, ill-bred person; a boor.
∙ A selfish miser; an illiberal person; a niggard.
∙ a freedman, ranked below a thane but above a thrall Theodism

BABYLON ENGLISH
churl n.
rude person; person from the country

HENGLISH - ADVANCED VERSION
churl
churl
\churl\, a. churlish; rough; selfish. [obs.]
churl
\churl\ (?), n. [as. ceorl a freeman of the lowest rank, man, husband; akin to d. karel, kerel, g. kerl, dan. & sw. karl, icel. karl, and to the e. proper name charles (orig., man, male), and perh. to skr. jāra lover. cf. carl, charles's wain.]
1. a rustic; a countryman or laborer. "a peasant or churl." your rank is all reversed; let men of cloth bow to the stalwart churls in overalls.
2. a rough, surly, ill-bred man; a boor. a churl's courtesy rarely comes, but either for gain or falsehood. sidney.
3. a selfish miser; an illiberal person; a niggard. like to some rich churl hoarding up his pelf.
churl
n
1. a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement [syn: peasant, barbarian, boor, goth, tyke, tike]

2. a selfish person who is unwilling to give or spend [syn: niggard, skinflint, scrooge]

3. a bad-tempered person [syn: grouch, grump, crank, crosspatch]

churl
in isa. 32:5 (r.v. marg., "crafty"), means a deceiver. in 1 sam. 25:3, the word churlish denotes a man that is coarse and ill-natured, or, as the word literally means, "hard." the same greek word as used by the lxx. here is found in matt. 25:24, and there is rendered "hard."

WORDNET 2.0
churl
Noun
1. a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement
(synonym) peasant, barbarian, boor, Goth, tyke, tike
(hypernym) unpleasant person, disagreeable person
2. a selfish person who is unwilling to give or spend
(synonym) niggard, skinflint, scrooge
(hypernym) hoarder
(hyponym) pinchgut
3. a bad-tempered person
(synonym) grouch, grump, crank, crosspatch
(hypernym) unpleasant person, disagreeable person
(hyponym) crab, crabby person

ENGLISH WIKIPEDIA - THE FREE ENCYCLOPEDIA
Churl
A churl (etymologically the same name as Charles / Carl and Old High German karal), in its earliest Old English (Anglo-Saxon) meaning, was simply "a man", but the word soon came to mean "a non-servile peasant", still spelled ceorl(e), and denoting the lowest rank of freemen. According to the Oxford English Dictionary it later came to mean the opposite of the nobility and royalty, "a common person". Says Chadwick: This meaning held through the 15th century, but by then the word had taken on negative overtone, meaning "a country person" and then "a low fellow". By the 19th century, a new and pejorative meaning arose, "one inclined to uncivil or loutish behaviour" (cf. the pejorative sense of the term boor, whose original meaning of "country person" or "farmer" is preserved in Dutch and Afrikaans boer and German Bauer, although the latter has its own pejorative connotations such as those prompting its use as the name for the chess piece known in English as a pawn. Also the word villain - derived from Anglo-French and Old French and originally meaning "farmhand" - had gone through a similar process to reach at its present meaning).
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