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Definition: Churl |
ChurlNoun1. A crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement. 2. A selfish person who is unwilling to give or spend. 3. A bad-tempered person. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "churl" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Bible | 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." Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Slang in 1811 | CHURL. Originally, a labourer or husbandman: figuratively a rude, surly, boorish fellow. To put a churl upon a gentleman; to drink malt liquor immediately after having drunk wine. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The ceorles of Anglo-Saxon times lived in a largely free society, and one in which their fealty was principally to their king. Agriculture was largely community-based and communal in open-field systems. This freedom was eventually eroded by the increase in power of feudal lords and the manorial system. Some scholars argue however that anterior to the encroachment of the manorial system the ceorls owed various services and rents to local lords and powers.
The word ceorle in a corrupted form is frequently found in British place names, in towns such as Carlton and Charlton, meaning "the farm of the churls".
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Churl."
Synonyms: ChurlSynonyms: barbarian (n), boor (n), crank (n), crosspatch (n), grouch (n), grump (n), niggard (n), peasant (n), scrooge (n), skinflint (n), tike (n), tyke (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Commonalty | Peasant, countryman, boor, carle, churl; villain, villein; terrae filius; serf, kern, tyke, tike, chuff, ryot, fellah; longshoreman; swain, clown, hind; clod, clodhopper; hobnail, yokel, bog-trotter, bumpkin; plowman, plowboy; rustic, hayseed, lunkhead, chaw-bacon, tiller of the soil; hewers of wood and drawers of water, groundling; gaffer, loon, put, cub, Tony Lumpkin, looby, rube, lout, underling; gamin; rough; pot-wallopper, slubberdegullion; vulgar fellow, low fellow; cad, curmudgeon. |
Parsimony | Miser, churl, screw, skinflint, crib, codger, muckworm, scrimp, lickpenny, hunks, curmudgeon, Harpagon, harpy, extortioner, Jew, usurer; Hessian; pinch fist, pinch penny. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Churl |
| English words defined with "churl": Carl, Carlot ♦ Gnof ♦ Raff. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "churl": William. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "churl": Knuff. (references) |
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| Author | Quotation |
Joanna Baillie | He who will not give some portion of his ease, his blood, his wealth, for others' good, is a poor frozen churl. |
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| "Churl" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Churl" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 7 | 133,076 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "churl"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | kurnac (churlish, miser, miserly, penny-pinching, pinchpenny, tightwad), koprrac (avaricious, cheese paring, clam, close-fisted, curmudgeon, curmudgeonly, grasping, griping, mean, mingy, miser, money grubber, money-grubbing, muckworm, narrow, near, rapacious, saving, screwy, scrimp, sharpener, skin, skinflint, stingy, tight-fisted, tightwad, turn-penny), harbut (boor, caddish, discourteous, disrespectful, graceless, indelicate, lout, loutish). (various references) | |
Arabic | فلاح من العصور الوسطى, الفلاح الريفي, الفظ (clown, swab), الغليظ (thick), البخيل (miser, screw, skinflint, tightwad). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | скъперник (accumulator, curmudgeon, hunks, miser, muckworm, save-all, scrape-penny, screw), селянин (cottager, cotter, countryman, hind, peasant, rustic, villager), грубиян (abuser, bohunk, boor, bulldozer, chuff, clown, hottentot, larrikin, rough, roughneck, rowdy, ruffian, savage, yap). (various references) | |
Czech | hulvát (boor, swashbuckler). (various references) | |
French | rustre (churlish), paysan, gros (chubby), avare. (various references) | |
German | Grobian (boor, brute, roughneck, ruffian), Flegel (boor, boors, brat, churls, cub, cubs, flail, lout, oaf, roughneck, yob). (various references) | |
Greek | χωρικόσ (peasant, regional, rustic, territorial, villager), αγροίκοσ (boorish, bounder, clownish, curmudgeon, lout, roughneck, rube, rude, rustic, scullion, yokel), αγροίκος (boorish, churlish, coarse, rude). (various references) | |
Hungarian | paraszt (boor, cottager, farmer, goop, hayseed, hick, hob, peasant, ploughman, rustic, ryot, tacky, wooly-back, yokel). (various references) | |
Italian | zotico (boorish, coarse, Hick, loutish, lubberly, rough, roughly, rudely, unsubtle), villanzone (ruffian), tirchio (churlish, hard-fisted, illiberal, mean, mingy, miser, miserly, near, stingy, tightfisted). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 下司 (menial, petty official). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | 'す (humble person, menial, person of humble rank, petty official). (various references) | |
Manx | grangan (crosspatch, cynic, grin, peevish person). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | urlchay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | vilão (serf, villain, villein), rústico (backwoods, boor, boorish, bumbling, bumpkin, chuff, churlish, cloddish, clodhopper, clown, countrified, lob, loutish, low-bred, lubber, mucker, peasant, rude, rural, rustic, rustical, uncouth, underbred, yokel). (various references) | |
Romanian | rãzeş (Franklin, yeoman), necioplit (barbarous, boorish, churlish, coarse, loutish, oafish, rough, unaccomplished, uncouth, unmannerly, unpolished, with the bark on), mojic (boor, cad, cur, hawbuck), bãdãran (bearish, boor, bumpkin, cad, churlish, clown, curmudgeon, hawbuck, hind, lout, oaf, peasant, rough, yokel), avar (accumulative, avaricious, churlish, close, close-fisted, grasping, miser, miserly, money grubber, muckworm, penurious, screw, stingy), ţãran (boor, clown, cottager, countryman, moujik, peasant, rustic). (various references) | |
Russian | грубиян (boor, butch, cad, chuff, curmudgeon, mucker, tike, twerp, tyke). (various references) | |
Scottish | miodhoir (a churl). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | tvrdica (chuff, hoarder, miser, moneybag, moneygrubber, scrooge, skinflint, tightwad), neotesanac. (various references) | |
Spanish | patán (backwoodsman, boor, bumpkin, clod, clodhopper, clown, country bumpkin, duffer, loon, lout, mucker, oaf, rube, yokel), grosero (boorish, bounder, coarse, crass, double chin, earthy, foulmouthed, gross, impolite, lower, nasty, ripe, rough, roughly, rude, rudely, ruffian, scurrilous, uncouth, unpleasant, unsubtle). (various references) | |
Swedish | drummel (ape, blunderhead, boob, booby, clod, clodpoll, clown, gawk, hobbledehoy, lout, lubber, lummox, oaf, swab). (various references) | |
Turkish | cimri kimse, pinti herif, kaba adam (backwoodsman, bear, boor, cad, caveman, clown, lout, mucker, yahoo), hanzo, hödük (boor, boorish, bumpkin, clodhopper, clown, clumsy, country bumpkin, dry stick, dull stick, hayseed, Hick, lubber, oaf, roughneck, rube, ruffian, rustic, stick, yob, yokel). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | скнара (chuff, clam, codger, curmudgeon, miser, nip-cheese, piker, save-all, scraper, skinflint), селюк (boor, bush-whacker, chuff, clown, gawky, red-neck, rustic, yahoo, yokel), грубіян (bearish, bucko, cad, chuff, cur, nowt, snapper, termagant, twerp, tyke, ugly customer), нечема (cad), мужлан (yokel). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tiện dân người vô học thức, người thô tục (hog, pig), người lỗ mãng người cáu kỉnh người keo cú, người bủn xỉn (hunks, miser). (various references) | |
Welsh | taeog (blunt, boor, boorish, churlish), delff (dolt, oaf, rascal), adwr (coward). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Isaiah Chapter 32, Verse 5 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai ouketi mh eipwsin tw mwrw arcein kai ouketi mh eipwsin oi uphretai sou siga |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Non vocabitur ultra is qui insipiens est princeps neque fraudulentus appellabitur maior |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Ther shal no more be clepid he that is vnwis a prince, ne the gylere shal be clepid a meyr. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said to be bountiful. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said to be bountiful. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | The foolish man will no longer be named noble, and they will not say of the false man that he is a man of honour. |
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| Language | Isaiah Chapter 32, Verse 5 |
| Cebuano | Ang tawong buang dili na pagataw-gon nga halangdon, ni ang hakog pagaingnon nga mahinatagon. |
| Croatian | pokvarenjaka neæe više zvati plemenitim, varalicu neæe više držat' odliènikom. |
| Danish | Dåren skal ikke mer kaldes ædel, højsindet ikke Skalken. |
| Dutch | De dwaas zal niet meer genoemd worden milddadig, en de gierige zal niet meer mild geheten worden. |
| Finnish | Ei houkkaa enää kutsuta jaloksi, eikä petollista enää sanota yleväksi. |
| French | On ne donnera plus l`insensé le nom de noble, Ni au fourbe celui de magnanime. |
| German | Es wird nicht mehr ein Narr Fürst heißen noch ein Geiziger Herr genannt werden. |
| Hungarian | Nem nevezik a bolondot többé nemesnek, és a csalárdot sem hívják nagylelkûnek. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Orang bodoh tidak lagi dianggap terhormat, dan penipu tidak dikatakan jujur. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka orang kikir itu tiada lagi akan dikatakan dermawan dan orang gelojohpun tiada lagi akan dikatakan murah. |
| Maori | E kore te wairangi e kiia i muri he ohaoha, e kore ano te kaiponu e kiia he atawhai. |
| Norwegian | Dåren skal ikke mere kalles edel, og den svikefulle skal ikke kalles høimodig. |
| Portuguese | Ao tolo nunca mais se chamará nobre, e do avarento nunca mais se dirá que é generoso. |
| Rumanian | Nebunul nu se va mai numi ales la suflet, nici miwelul nu se va mai numi cu inimq largq. |
| Russian | оЕЧЕЦ"Х ХЦЕ ОЕ 'Х"ХФ ОБЪЩЧБФШ ПЮФЕООЩН, Й П ЛПЧБТОПН ОЕ УЛБЦХФ, ЮФП ПО ЮЕУФОЩК. |
| Spanish | El vil nunca más será llamado generoso; ni noble, el canalla. |
| Swedish | Dåren skall då icke mer heta ädling, ej heller bedragaren kallas herre. |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "churl": churlish, churlishly, churlishness, churlishnesses, churls. (additional references) | |
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"Churl" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: charl, Charla, Chauri, Choul, chrulew, chulb, chull, chur, churb, chure, Churi, Churilov, Churk, Churm, curlm, Khul, Khuri, korl, kurl, phurl, Schuur, Shurll. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: lurch. | |
| Words within the letters "c-h-l-r-u" | |
-1 letter: curl, hurl. | |
-2 letters: cur. | |
-3 letters: uh. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-h-l-r-u" | |
+1 letter: churls. | |
+2 letters: blucher, luncher, lurched, lurcher, lurches. | |
+3 letters: bluchers, cheerful, chlorous, chuckler, churchly, churlish, hercules, launcher, lunchers, lurchers, lurching, prelunch, relaunch, sloucher, trauchle. | |
+4 letters: archducal, butcherly, chevelure, chondrule, chucklers, crunchily, crushable, currishly, grouchily, herculean, housecarl, hydraulic, launchers, lecherous, lunchroom, prelaunch, raunchily, scheduler, sepulcher, sepulchre, slouchers, slouchier, squelcher, trauchled, trauchles, trochilus, ultrachic, ultrarich, vehicular. | |
+5 letters: chartulary, cheerfully, cherublike, chevelures, chivalrous, chondrules, churchless, churchlier, churlishly, crunchable, crushingly, herculeses, housecarls, hydraulics, leprechaun, lunchrooms, pitcherful, relaunched, relaunches, reschedule, schedulers, sepulchers, sepulchral, sepulchred, sepulchres, squelchers, squelchier, theurgical, thiouracil, trauchling, ultrafiche, unchurchly. | |
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