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The answer CHURL has 49 possible clue(s) in existing crosswords.
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Definitions of churl in various dictionaries:
noun - a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement
noun - a selfish person who is unwilling to give or spend
noun - a bad-tempered person
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| Possible Crossword Clues |
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| Barbarian |
| Surly sort |
| Surly boor |
| Rude person |
| One without manners |
| Lout |
| Boor |
| Boorish bloke |
| Rude dude |
| Rude sort |
| Possible Dictionary Clues |
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| a rude and mean-spirited person. |
| A rude and mean-spirited person. |
| A peasant. |
| a bad-tempered person |
| a selfish person who is unwilling to give or spend |
| a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement |
| A rude, boorish person. See Synonyms at boor. |
| A miserly person. |
| A ceorl. |
| A medieval English peasant. |
| Churl description |
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A churl (etymologically the same name as Charles / Carl and Old High German karal), in its earliest Old English (Anglo-Saxon) meaning, was simply "a man", and more particularly a "husband", but the word soon came to mean "a non-servile peasant", still spelled eorl(e), and denoting the lowest rank of freemen. According to the Oxford English Dictionary it later came to mean the opposite of the nobility and royalty, "a common person". Says Chadwick:* the distinction between thegn and ceorl is from the time of Aethelstan, the broad line of demarcation between the classes of society. * This meaning held through the 15th century, but by then the word had taken on negative overtones, meaning "a country person" and then "a low fellow". By the 19th century, a new and pejorative meaning arose, "one inclined to uncivil or loutish behaviour"hence "churlish" (cf. the pejorative sense of the term boor, whose original meaning of "country person" or "farmer" is preserved in Dutch and Afrikaans boer and |