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churl::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | barbarian, boor, goth, peasant, tike, tyke |
| Type of | disagreeable person, unpleasant person |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | crank, crosspatch, grouch, grump |
| Type of | disagreeable person, unpleasant person |
| Has types | fire-eater, hothead, crabby person, crab, misanthrope, misanthropist |
Examples of churl
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Compare churl and the trifunctional hypothesis of Proto-Indo-European society.
From the en.wikipedia.org
I must accept that charge and plough on, appropriately enough for a churl.
From the newscientist.com
But the film is also robust, amiable and so warm-hearted you'd be a churl to take against it.
From the guardian.co.uk
But churl is what we do, so let it be stated that the story was lifted wholesale from a website.
From the independent.co.uk
I also find it hard to be too grateful for this character-building opportunity, churl that I am.
From the well.blogs.nytimes.com
Only a miserable churl, however, could fail to be moved by the scene Make It Right now offers.
From the guardian.co.uk
You don't have to like them but you'd have to be a rotten old churl not to admire Manchester United.
From the thisislondon.co.uk
Only a churl would dare to bring up the vote-rigging scandal of the British Comedy Awards 2005 at a time like this.
From the tv.uk.msn.com
Become a money grubbing churl, hoarding cash and goods like a squirrel storing acorns before a long Buffalo winter?
From the buffalonews.com
- Peasant: a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement
- Niggard: a selfish person who is unwilling to give or spend
- Grouch: a bad-tempered person
- 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 u010Beorl(e), and denoting the lowest rank of freemen...
- A boorish person; a peasant; : a freedman, ranked below a thane but above a thrall; ill-mannered lout
- In Isa 32:5 (R.V. marg., "crafty"), means a deceiver. In Sa1 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 Mat 25:24, and there is rendered "hard."
- A rude, vulgar, stingy or hard to work with person.
- A Saxon tenant at will but a free man.
- A rude, surly, boorish fellow.
