churl
Speech parts
1. churl - Noun
2. churl - Adjective
Meaning
A rustic; a countryman or laborer.
A rough, surly, ill-bred man; a boor.
A selfish miser; an illiberal person; a niggard.
Churlish; rough; selfish.
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It's an honor to be beheaded. Even a little churl becomes a man by being beheaded.
Entreat the churl and the bargain is broken off.
Who gives sell, sells dear, if the receiver be not a churl.
A churl knows not the work of spurs.
A churl never liked a gentleman.
In 9th century Mercian law a regular freeman ( churl ) was worth 200 shillings A shilling was defined as the value of a cow in Kent or elsewhere, a sheep.