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churl n. 下賤的人;吝嗇鬼;村夫 下賤的人;吝嗇鬼;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. [ 1913 Webster] 2. A rough, surly, ill- bred man; a boor. [ 1913 Webster] A churl' s courtesy rarely comes, but either for gain or falsehood. -- Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster] 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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