Churl Definition & Meaning | Bay Area Crosswords

About The Word Churl

Learn about the word Churl to help solve your crossword puzzle. Discover Churl definitions and meaning, origins, synonyms, related terms and more at the free Crossword Dictionary.

Churl

Churl Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Churl? [n] a bad-tempered person [n] a selfish person who is unwilling to give or spend [n] a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement Synonyms \| Synonyms for Churl: barbarian \| boor \| crank \| crosspatch \| Goth \| grouch \| grump \| niggard \| peasant \| scrooge \| skinflint \| tike \| tyke Related Terms \| Find terms related to Churl: arriviste \| Babbitt \| bondmaid \| bondman \| bondslave \| bondsman \| bondswoman \| boor \| bounder \| bourgeois \| cad \| captive \| chattel \| chattel slave \| clodhopper \| clown \| concubine \| curmudgeon \| debt slave \| epicier \| galley slave \| groundling \| guttersnipe \| helot \| homager \| hooligan \| ill-bred fellow \| liege \| liege man \| liege subject \| looby \| lout \| low fellow \| miser \| mucker \| muckworm \| niggard \| nouveau riche \| odalisque \| parvenu \| peasant \| penny pincher \| peon \| Philistine \| pinchfist \| pinchgut \| ribald \| rough \| roughneck \| rowdy \| ruffian \| save-all \| scrooge \| serf \| servant \| Silas Marner \| skinflint \| slave \| subject \| theow \| thrall \| tightwad \| upstart \| vassal \| villein \| vulgarian \| vulgarist \| yokel See Also \| crab \| crabby person \| disagreeable person \| fire-eater \| hoarder \| hothead \| misanthrope \| misanthropist \| pinchgut \| unpleasant person Churl In Webster's Dictionary \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. j[=a]ra lover. Cf. {Carl}, {Charles's Wain}.] 1. A rustic; a countryman or laborer. ``A peasant or churl.'' --Spenser. Your rank is all reversed; let men of cloth Bow to the stalwart churls in overalls. --Emerson. 2. A rough, surly, ill-bred man; a boor. A churl's courtesy rarely comes, but either for gain or falsehood. --Sir P. Sidney. 3. A selfish miser; an illiberal person; a niggard. Like to some rich churl hoarding up his pelf. --Drayton. \Churl\, a. Churlish; rough; selfish. [Obs.] --Ford.

Churl Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Churl?

[n] a bad-tempered person
[n] a selfish person who is unwilling to give or spend
[n] a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement

Churl In Webster's Dictionary

\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. j[=a]ra lover. Cf. {Carl},
{Charles's Wain}.]
1. A rustic; a countryman or laborer. ``A peasant or churl.''
   --Spenser.

         Your rank is all reversed; let men of cloth Bow to
         the stalwart churls in overalls.      --Emerson.

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

         A churl's courtesy rarely comes, but either for gain
         or falsehood.                         --Sir P.
                                               Sidney.

3. A selfish miser; an illiberal person; a niggard.

         Like to some rich churl hoarding up his pelf.
                                               --Drayton.


\Churl\, a.
Churlish; rough; selfish. [Obs.] --Ford.

More Crossword Puzzle Words

A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z

Cross Word Of The Day

Dreadful ‐ causing fear or dread or terror; "the awful war"; "an awful risk";…
Fahrenheit scale ‐ a temperature scale that defines the freezing point of water…
Tetragrammaton ‐ four Hebrew letters (usually transliterated as YHWH (Yahweh)…
Research worker ‐ a scientist who devotes himself to…
Hamitic language ‐ a group of North African languages related…
Yellow lupine ‐ yellow-flowered European lupine cultivated…
Israeli ‐ a native or inhabitant of Israel [adj] of or relating to or characteristic…
Bird-scarer ‐ an effigy in the shape of a man to frighten birds away…
Smoothbore ‐ of a firearm; not having rifling or internal spiral grooves inside…
Affective disorder ‐ any mental disorder not caused by detectable organic abnormalities…