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Grammar : Noun
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Phonetic Transcription : tʃɜrl

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Origin :
  • Old English ceorl "peasant, freeman, man without rank," from Proto-Germanic *kerlaz, *karlaz (cf. Old Frisian zerl "man, fellow," Middle Low German kerle, Dutch kerel "freeman of low degree," German Kerl "man, husband," Old Norse karl "old man, man").
  • It had various meaning in early Middle English, including "man of the common people," "a country man," "husbandman," "free peasant;" by 1300, it meant "bondman, villain," also "fellow of low birth or rude manners." For words for "common man" that acquire an insulting flavor over time, compare boor, villain. In this case, however, the same word also has come to mean "king" in many languages (e.g. Lithuanian karalius, Czech kral, Polish krol) via Charlemagne.
  • noun rude and ill-bred, a boor; person overly concerned with saving money
Example sentences :
  • I would do battle for it even with the churl that should produce the title-deeds.
  • Extract from : « Footprints on the Sea-Shore (From "Twice Told Tales") » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • "Let me get something for myself," he says, like the churl in Theocritus.
  • Extract from : « Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 3, August, 1850. » by Various
  • "Churl or not, his coin is good," said Harry Vint, philosophically.
  • Extract from : « The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866 » by Various
  • A man may value what is his own without being a miser or a churl.
  • Extract from : « Tristram of Blent » by Anthony Hope
  • A man is a churl who enforces laws, when he himself has not the strength to observe them.
  • Extract from : « The Patrician » by John Galsworthy
  • But Florentine animalism, at this time, feels the joy of a gentleman, not of a churl.
  • Extract from : « Ariadne Florentina » by John Ruskin
  • I had to turn about to avoid the further degradation of acting the churl to her, an inferior.
  • Extract from : « Desert Dust » by Edwin L. Sabin
  • The "churl" had no rights which those in office were bound to respect.
  • Extract from : « The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866 » by Various
  • That night, after cursing myself for a churl, I wrote and wished her good luck.
  • Extract from : « Uncanny Tales » by Various
  • Where is thy breeding, churl, to use such thewis (manners) with a lady?
  • Extract from : « The White Rose of Langley » by Emily Sarah Holt

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