Churl Synonyms

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Synonyms for Churl

carle
(Chiefly Scotland) peasant; fellow
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niggard
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barbarian
A member of one of the non-Greek peoples in the ancient world, regarded by the ancient Greeks as culturally inferior.
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ceorl
A freeman of the lowest class in Anglo-Saxon England.
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lout
A clownish, awkward fellow; a bumpkin.
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miser
One who lives very meagerly in order to hoard money.
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peasant
A country person; a rustic.
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rustic
A (sometimes unsophisticated) person from a rural area.
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tightwad
A miser.
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husband
The definition of a husband is a male partner in a marriage.
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boor
A rude, awkward, or ill-mannered person
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chuff
A rude, insensitive person; a boor.
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philistine
Alternative capitalization of Philistine
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countryman
A person of one's own country; compatriot
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(Archaic) A simple or boorish peasant; rustic
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knave
(Archaic) A serving boy or male servant
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villain
A dramatic or fictional character who is typically at odds with the hero.
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yokel
A person of rural background.
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grouch
A grumbling or sulky mood:
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crank
Crank is defined as a handle or a bent arm which is used to make a motor or machine rotate, or a crank is an informal term for a grouchy person.
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crosspatch
(US) A grumpy, bad-tempered or irascible person.
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skinflint
One who is very reluctant to spend money; a miser.
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scrooge
A miserly person; a person with an excessive dislike of spending money or other resources.
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goth
(Uncountable) A punk-derived subculture of people who predominately dress in black.
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tyke
(--- Dial.) A boor
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tike
Alternative spelling of tyke (mongrel dog)
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pinchgut
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vulgarian
A person who makes an ostentatious display of wealth and is often poorly educated or lacking in refinement.
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yahoo!
Yahoo! is a website that offers a search engine and other features, or a yahoo is a person who is coarse or unrefined in style.
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bumpkin
A short spar projecting from the deck of a ship, used to extend a sail or secure a block or stay.
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cad
A low-bred, presuming person; a mean, vulgar fellow.
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serf
A similar agricultural labourer in 18th and 19th century Europe.
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skimper
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(Slang) Incriminating information or evidence:
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  • The Old-English laws point out ways by which the churl might rise to thegn's rank, and in the centuries during which the change went on we find mention - complaining mention - both in England and elsewhere, at the court of Charles the Simple and at the court of 'Ethelred, of the rise of new men to posts of authority.

  • The form ceorl soon became cherl, as in Havelok the Dane (ante 1300) and several times in Chaucer, and subsequently churl.

  • Taking a less technical sense than the ceorl of Anglo-Saxon law, churl, or cherl was used in general to mean a "man," and more particularly a "husband."

  • Of, like, or befitting a churl; boorish or vulgar.

  • Ptolemy catalogued 8 stars, Tycho 7 and Hevelius Of these, the seven brightest (a of the 1st magnitude, 0, y, of the 2nd magnitude, and b of the 3rd magnitude) constitute one of the most characteristic figures in the northern sky; they have received various names - Septentriones, the wagon, plough, dipper and Charles's wain (a corruption of " churl's wain," or peasant's cart).

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