Definitions for churl

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Spelling: [churl]
IPA: /tʃɜrl/

Churl is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 37 anagrams from letters in churl (chlru).

Definitions for churl

noun

  1. a rude, boorish, or surly person.
  2. a peasant; rustic.
  3. a niggard; miser:
  4. English History. a freeman of the lowest rank.

Origin of churl

before 900; Middle English cherl, Old English ceorl man, freeman; cognate with Dutch kerel, German Kerl; akin to carl

Examples for churl

I had to turn about to avoid the further degradation of acting the churl to her, an inferior.

The "churl" had no rights which those in office were bound to respect.

A man is a churl who enforces laws, when he himself has not the strength to observe them.

I would do battle for it even with the churl that should produce the title-deeds.

"churl or not, his coin is good," said Harry Vint, philosophically.

A man may value what is his own without being a miser or a churl.

That night, after cursing myself for a churl, I wrote and wished her good luck.

"Let me get something for myself," he says, like the churl in Theocritus.

But Florentine animalism, at this time, feels the joy of a gentleman, not of a churl.

Where is thy breeding, churl, to use such thewis (manners) with a lady?

Word Value for churl
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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