Definitions for churls

churls churl

Spelling: [churl]
IPA: /tʃɜrl/

Churls is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 76 anagrams from letters in churls (chlrsu).

Definitions for churls

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 churls

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

Examples for churls

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for churls
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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