churl
    n 1: a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or
         refinement [syn: peasant, barbarian, boor, churl,
         Goth, tyke, tike]
    2: a selfish person who is unwilling to give or spend [syn:
       niggard, skinflint, scrooge, churl]
    3: a bad-tempered person [syn: grouch, grump, crank,
       churl, crosspatch]

Churl \Churl\, a.
   Churlish; rough; selfish. [Obs.] --Ford.
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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.
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            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.
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            Like to some rich churl hoarding up his pelf.
                                                  --Drayton.
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Churl
   in Isa. 32:5 (R.V. marg., "crafty"), means a deceiver. In 1 Sam.
   25:3, the word churlish denotes a man that is coarse and
   ill-natured, or, as the word literally means, "hard." The same
   Greek word as used by the LXX. here is found in Matt. 25:24, and
   there is rendered "hard."