Churl vs. Churlish

Churlnoun

A rustic; a countryman or labourer; a free peasant (as opposed to a serf).

Churlnoun

A rough, surly, ill-bred person; a boor.

Churlnoun

A selfish miser; an illiberal person; a niggard.

Churlnoun

(Theodism) A freedman, ranked below a thane but above a thrall.

Churlnoun

A rustic; a countryman or laborer.

Churlnoun

A rough, surly, ill-bred man; a boor.

Churlnoun

A selfish miser; an illiberal person; a niggard.

Churladjective

Churlish; rough; selfish.

Churlnoun

a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement

Churlnoun

a selfish person who is unwilling to give or spend

Churlnoun

a bad-tempered person

Churl

A churl (Old High German karal), in its earliest Old English (Anglo-Saxon) meaning, was simply or more particularly a , but the word soon came to mean , still spelled ċeorl(e), and denoting the lowest rank of freemen. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, it later came to mean the opposite of nobility and royalty, .

Churlishadjective

Of or pertaining to a serf, peasant, or rustic.

Churlishadjective

Rude, surly, ungracious.

Churlishadjective

Stingy or grudging.

Churlishadjective

(of soil) Difficult to till, lacking pliancy; unmanageable.

Churlishadjective

Like a churl; rude; cross-grained; ungracious; surly; illiberal; niggardly.

Churlishadjective

Wanting pliancy; unmanageable; unyielding; not easily wrought; as, a churlish soil; the churlish and intractable nature of some minerals.

Churlishadjective

rude and boorish

Churlishadjective

having a bad disposition; surly;