churl
n . 下贱的人;吝啬鬼;村夫
下贱的人;吝啬鬼;村夫
churl n 1 :
a crude uncouth ill -
bred person lacking culture or refinement [
synonym : {
peasant }, {
barbarian }, {
boor }, {
churl },
{
Goth }, {
tyke }, {
tike }]
2 :
a selfish person who is unwilling to give or spend [
synonym :
{
niggard }, {
skinflint }, {
scrooge }, {
churl }]
3 :
a bad -
tempered person [
synonym : {
grouch }, {
grump }, {
crank },
{
churl }, {
crosspatch }]
Churl \
Churl \,
a .
Churlish ;
rough ;
selfish . [
Obs .] --
Ford .
[
1913 Webster ]
Churl \
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 .
[
1913 Webster ]
Your rank is all reversed ;
let men of cloth Bow to the stalwart churls in overalls . --
Emerson .
[
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2 .
A rough ,
surly ,
ill -
bred man ;
a boor .
[
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A churl '
s courtesy rarely comes ,
but either for gain or falsehood . --
Sir P .
Sidney .
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3 .
A selfish miser ;
an illiberal person ;
a niggard .
[
1913 Webster ]
Like to some rich churl hoarding up his pelf .
--
Drayton .
[
1913 Webster ]
68 Moby Thesaurus words for "
churl ":
Babbitt ,
Philistine ,
Silas Marner ,
arriviste ,
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 ,
pinchfist ,
pinchgut ,
ribald ,
rough ,
roughneck ,
rowdy ,
ruffian ,
save -
all ,
scrooge ,
serf ,
servant ,
skinflint ,
slave ,
subject ,
theow ,
thrall ,
tightwad ,
upstart ,
vassal ,
villein ,
vulgarian ,
vulgarist ,
yokel
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