Churlish

Definition: Churlish

Churlish

Adjective

1. Rude and boorish.

2. Having a bad disposition; surly; "churlish as a bear"- Shakespeare.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "churlish" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references)

Synonym: Churlish

Commonalty

Rustic, uncivilized; loutish, boorish, clownish, churlish, brutish, raffish; rude, unlicked.

Discourtesy

Repulsive; uncomplaisant, unaccommodating, unneighborly, ungallant; inaffable; ungentle, ungainly; rough, rugged, bluff, blunt, gruff; churlish, boorish, bearish; brutal, brusque; stern, harsh, austere; cavalier.

Irascibility

Querulous, captious, moodish; quarrelsome, contentious, disputatious; pugnacious; (bellicose); cantankerous, exceptious; restiff; (perverse) a; churlish; (discourteous).

Malevolence

Harsh, disobliging; unkind, unfriendly, ungracious; inofficious; invidious; uncandid; churlish; (discourteous); surly, sullen; a.

Parsimony

Adjective: parsimonious, penurious, stingy, miserly, mean, shabby, peddling, scrubby, penny wise, near, close; fast handed, close handed, strait handed; close fisted, hard fisted, tight fisted; tight, sparing; chary; grudging, griping; Verb: illiberal, ungenerous, churlish, hidebound, sordid, mercenary, venal, covetous, usurious, avaricious, greedy, extortionate, rapacious.

Crosswords: Churlish

and you've been thouroughly churlish ever since I arrived (Blithe Spirit; writing credit: Noel Coward, Anthony Havelock-Allan, David Lean and Ronald Neame. Based on the play by Noel Coward.)

Sheath thy sword, the surly sheriff said, "or surely shall a churlish serf soon shatter thee. (references; author: unknown)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Albanian

kurnac (churl, miser, miserly, penny-pinching, pinchpenny, tightwad), i vrazhdë (abrupt, austere, bad tempered, boeotian, boorish, brutal, brutish, clownish, coarse, crude, discordant, dissonant, earthy, fretful, grave, gross, hard, hard-fisted, harsh, heavy-handed, ill natured, low-bred, morose, murky, robustious, rough, rough spoken, rude, scurrilous, severe, stern, sullen, surly, truculent, uncivil, unfinished, unhandsome, unmannerly), i ashpër (argute, austere, biting, bluff, bluffy, Brant, bristly, brusque, coarse, crude, ding-dong, dour, draconian, draconic, gravelly, grim, gruff, hard, harsh, ill, ill natured, inclement, keen, malevolent, pipy, raucous, rigid, rigorous, rough, rough and ready, rude, savage, scabrous, scathing, scratchy, severe, shaggy, slashing, smart, stern, strict, tough, truculent, uncharitable, unkind, unmerciful, violent, wiry). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فظ (abrupt, blunt, boor, boorish, brusque, brutish, burly, chuffy, clownish, coarse, country, crude, crusty, curt, discourteous, earthy, grievous, gross, gruff, hairy, harsh, hoarse, ill mannered, impolite, indelicate, low, mannerless, obdurate, off hand, plug ugly, precipitous, rough, rough and ready, rude, ruffianly, rugged, rustic, savage, scathe, serious, shaggy, short, sour, surly, uncivil, uncouth, unkind, unmannerly, unprintable), ‏غليظ (boor, coarse, hoarse, loutish, mannerless, robust, rugged, rustic, stodgy, strongarm, thick, ungainly, unmannerly, wild), ‏صعب المراس (awkward, indocile, intractable, problem, sticky, ungainly, ungovernable, unruly, untoward, wayward), ‏جاف (arid, becoming dry, boorish, brittle, crude, curt, dehydrated, desiccated, dried, dry, dryish, gross, harsh, objectionable, rough, surly, unceremonious, uncivil, uncouth, ungracious, wild). (various references)

Bulgarian 

свидлив (avaricious, close-fisted, costive, hardfisted, illiberal, miserly, narrow, parsimonious, saving, skinny, tight, tight-fisted, ungenerous), труднотопим, груб (abrupt, bearish, boeotian, brusque, callous, clownish, clumsy, coarse, coarse grained, common, crude, cubbish, curt, earthy, feral, glaring, graceless, gross, gruff, hard boiled, harsh, heavy, hoggish, homespun, horny, loutish, low, material, outlandish, raspy, raucous, raw, rough, rough-shod, rowdy, rude, rugged, russet, rusty, short, surly, tough, uncivil, uncouth, wild and woolly). (various references)

Chinese 

� 教养. (various references)

Czech

neotesaný (coarse, common, gross, ignorant, loutish, rugged, uncouth), neomalený (abrasive, blunt, cool, impertinent, unsuitable), hulvátský (boorish, crude). (various references)

Farsi 

زمخت (Blowsy, Blowzy, Clumsy, Coarse, Crass, Crude, Gross, Hard, Impolite, Raucous, Rough, Rude, Rugged, Tough), خشن (Blatant, Blowsy, Blowzy, Boorish, Brutish, Coarse, Crusty, Gruff, Harsh, High, Hoarse, Impolite, Indelicate, Knockkneed, Plebeian, Ragged, Random, Rough, Rowdy, Rude, Scraggy, Truculent, Ungracious, Unkempt, Unmannered, Unmennerly, Wooden). (various references)

French

rustre (churl), mufle, impoli, grossier. (various references)

German

flegelhaft (boorish, boorishly, churlishly, loutish, oafish, uncouth). (various references)

Greek 

στριμμένοσ (captious, crabbed, crotchety, cussed, squiggly, surly), βάναυσοσ (coarse, crude, rough, roughneck, rude), αγροίκος (boorish, churl, coarse, rude). (various references)

Hungarian

parasztos (rustic). (various references)

Indonesian

tak tahu aturan. (various references)

Italian

villano (caddish, impolite, lout, loutish, rude, surly, villein, yokel). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

下司ばる (to be churlish, to be vulgar). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

�'すばる (to be churlish, to be vulgar). (various references)

Korean 

야비한. (various references)

Manx

granganagh (cantankerous, captious, cattish, catty, crabbed, crabbed of person, crabby, cross, cross annoyed, cynical, disagreeable, fractious, fretful, grumpy, ill-humoured, ill-natured, ill-tempered, niggly person, peevish, snappy). (various references)

Pig Latin

urlishchay.(various references)

Portuguese

rústico (backwoods, boor, boorish, bumbling, bumpkin, chuff, churl, cloddish, clodhopper, clown, countrified, lob, loutish, low-bred, lubber, mucker, peasant, rude, rural, rustic, rustical, uncouth, underbred, yokel), grosseiro (awkward, bearish, blanket, boorish, bumbling, caddish, cloddish, clownish, clumsy, coarse, coarse-grained, common, crass, crude, cub, curmudgeon, curmudgeonly, earthy, gross, gruff, harsh, heavy-handed, hoggish, homely, ill-bred, ill-mannered, impolite, incondite, indelicate, inelaborate, joggly, lacerated, left-handed, lob, loutish, low-bred, lubberly, lumpish, piggish, ragged, ribald, rough, rude, rugged, scurrilous, surly, swinish, thick, uncivil, uncouth, uncultivated, unkind, unladylike, unmannerly, unparliamentary, untaught, vulgar, vulgarian, wooden). (various references)

Romanian

zgârcit (accumulator, avaricious, cheese paring, clenched, close, close-fisted, close-handed, costive, covetous, curmudgeon, grasping, hunks, illiberal, iron-fisted, mean, miser, miserly, money grubber, muckworm, parsimonious, penny father, penny-wise, penurious, screw, skimpy, skin, skinflint, sparing, stingy, tight), vulgar (base, broad, coarse, common, gross, large, low, low-lived, unrefined, vile, vulgar, vulgarly), ursuz (crabbed, crabby, crusty, gnarled, grumbler, grumbling, grumpy, morose, peevish, somber, sombre, sulky, sullen, sullenly, surly), necioplit (barbarous, boorish, churl, coarse, loutish, oafish, rough, unaccomplished, uncouth, unmannerly, unpolished, with the bark on), mojicesc (boorish, clownish, coarse, rude), grosolan (boorish, broad, brutish, clumsy, coarse, coarsely, crass, crude, currish, elephantine, flagrant, glaring, gross, grossly, homespun, ill bred, indecorous, indelicately, inurbane, large, loutish, oafish, rank, rough, roughly, rude, rugged, rustic, trivial, unaccomplished, unmannerly, vulgar), bãdãran (bearish, boor, bumpkin, cad, churl, clown, curmudgeon, hawbuck, hind, lout, oaf, peasant, rough, yokel), avar (accumulative, avaricious, churl, close, close-fisted, grasping, miser, miserly, money grubber, muckworm, penurious, screw, stingy). (various references)

Russian 

грубый (bad, barbaric, barbarous, bearish, beastly, bestial, blunt, boeotian, boor, boorish, brusque, brutal, brute, brute-force, brutish, clownish, coarse, common, crass, crude, curmudgeonly, currish, fresh, fulsome, gross, gross ear, gruff, hard bitten, hardhanded, harsh, heathenish, homespun, horny, ill-bred, ill-mannered, ill-natured, jazz, larrikin, loutish, low down, low-lived, rank, raucous, raw, rawhide, ribald, robust, rough, rough and ready, rude, scratchy, scurrilous, uncivil, uncultivated, unfinished, unhewn, unmannerly, vulgar, woolly). (various references)

Scottish

bìogarra. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

nevaspitan (bad-mannered, cubbish, malapert, naughty, rude, unbred, uncivil, unmannerly). (various references)

Spanish

rústico (backwoods, clownish, countrified, Hick, rural, rustic, sylvan, yokel), poco afable (nasty). (various references)

Swedish

tölpig (boorish), rå (advise, bestial, boundary, brute, coarse, counsel, crude, damp and chilly, fairy, foul-mouthed, fresh, gross, primitive, raw, rough, sprite, tough, uncooked, vulgar, yard), drummelig, buffelaktig (boorish). (various references)

Turkish

cimri (chary, cheapskate, cheeseparing, close, close-fisted, costive, hard-fisted, illiberal, light purse, long purse, mangy, mean, measly, mingy, miser, near, parsimonious, penny pincher, penurious, piker, pinchpenny, screw, scrimp, scrimpy, Scrooge, shabby, shylock, skimp, skimpy, skin, skinflint, skinny, sordid, spare, stingy, tight, tight purse, tight-fisted, tightwad, ungenerous), vahşi (atrocious, barbarian, barbaric, brutal, brute, feral, ferocious, haggard, heathen, heathenish, rude, savage, tigerish, truculent, uncivilized, wild, wolfish), ters (acrimonious, adverse, agley, Amiss, awkward, awry, backward, backwards, bad tempered, bloody minded, contradictory, contrary, converse, counter, crabbed, cranky, curt, cussed, dour, face down, fractious, fretful, Froward, frowning, grumpy, ill natured, illegitimate, indecorous, inimical, inverse, inversely, inverted, mis-, negative, off, opposing, opposite, perverse, retro-, reverse, snuffy, sub-, unfavorable, unfavourable, upside down, versed, wayward, wrong, wrongly), terbiyesiz (bad, blackguard, blackguardly, broad, caddish, coarse, coarse grained, dirty, graceless, ill bred, ill mannered, immodest, immoral, impertinent, impolite, improper, impudent, indelicate, inelegant, insolent, mannerless, naughty, ribald, risky, risque, rude, scabrous, shameless, uncultured, underbred, undressed, unmannerly, unpolished), pinti (cheeseparing, close-fisted, mangy, miser, parsimonious, screw, skinflint, stingy, tightwad, ungenerous), kaba (abrupt, barbarous, base, bearish, boorish, brusque, brutal, brutish, clodhopping, coarse, coarse grained, common, crass, crude, discourteous, disobliging, disrespectful, doric, foul, graceless, gross, gruff, gutter, hard-hitting, harsh, heavy, hobnailed, hoggish, ill bred, ill mannered, impolite, incondite, indelicate, inelegant, loud, loutish, offhand, offhanded, ornery, puffy, rank, rough, rough-hewn, roughly, rude, rugged, rustic, short-spoken, splay, swinish, tactless, unceremonious, unchivalrous, uncivil, uncomplaisant, uncomplimentary, uncouth, underbred, unfinished, ungainly, ungalant, ungentle, ungentlemanlike, ungentlemanly, ungraceful, ungracious, unmannerly, unparliamentary, unpolished, unrefined, vulgar), huysuz (acrimonious, as cross as two sticks, bad tempered, bilious, cantankerous, crabbed, crabby, crank, cranky, cross-grained, crosspatch, crotchety, crusty, cursed, difficult, disagreeable, disgruntled, doggish, farouche, fractious, fretful, gnarled, grouchy, gruff, grumbling, grumpy, ill natured, ill tempered, ill-humored, ill-humoured, liverish, mean, Moody, out of humour, out of sorts, peeved, peevish, peppery, perverse, pettish, petulant, prickly, quarrelsome, querulous, ratty, rusty, shirty, snappish, spleenful, spleenish, splenetic, stroppy, sulky, surly, tetchy, thrawn, ugly, untoward, vicious, vixenish, waspish, wildcat, wrongheaded). (various references)

Ukrainian

упертий (asinine, bullheaded, cobby, contumacious, cross-grained, difficile, disobedient, dogged, hard-nosed, headstrong, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, opinionated, opinioned, patient, persistent, pertinacious, perverse, piggish, pigheaded, rebellious, reluctant, restive, rowdy, self-opinionated, set, stiff necked, strong-willed, stubborn, wilful, willful), скупий (chary, cheeseparing, clam, close-fisted, covetous, gripping, grudging, hard-fisted, illiberal, mean-spirited, mingy, miserly, narrow, near, nigh, parsimonious, penny-pinching, saving, scant, screwy, scrimpy, skimpy, snippy, split-farthing, stingy, tight-fisted), скнарий (hard-fisted, mingy, miserly, penurious, tight-fisted), грубий (abrupt, artless, barbaresque, barbaric, base, bearish, boarish, broad, brusque, brute, caddish, chuffy, clownish, clumsy, coarse, coarse grained, crass, crude, gross, hard boiled, homely, ill bred, knockabout, offhand, plebeian, primitive, ribald, rough, rough spoken, rude, scratchy, shaggy, surly, swinish, truculent, uncouth), невдячний (ingrate, thankless, ungrateful, unthankful), непіддатливий (hard-mouthed, impracticable, non-yielding, recalcitrant, unpliant, unyielding), непривітний (chill, cold, cool, inclement, unaffable). (various references)

Vietnamese 

thô bỉ (grossly, harsh, larrikin, scurrilous, uncivil), mất dạy cáu kỉnh keo cú. (various references)

Welsh

taeogaidd (rude), taeog (blunt, boor, boorish, churl). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "churlish": churlishly, churlishness, churlishnesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Churlish" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: chirlish, Chorlis, chrulish, churlis, Courlach, curlyish. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: churls.

-3 letters: churl, crush, cuish, curls, hilus, hurls, lurch, schul, sulci.

-4 letters: chis, cris, crus, curl, curs, huic, hurl, hush, ichs, lich, lush, rhus, rich, rush, shri, shul, slur, such, uric.

-5 letters: chi, cis, cur, hic, his, huh, ich, lis, shh, sic, sir, sri.

+2 letters: churlishly.

+3 letters: churchliest.

+4 letters: churchliness, churlishness.

+5 letters: leprechaunish.