Synonymer

Uttal

    • IPA: /tʃəːl/

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Definitioner

Substantiv

  1. A rustic; a countryman or labourer; a peasant.
  2. A rough, surly, ill-bred person; a boor.
  3. A selfish miser; an illiberal person; a niggard.
  4. (Theodism) a freedman, ranked below a thane but above a thrall

Exempel

  • Your rank is all reversed; let men of cloth / Bow to the stalwart churls in overalls.
  • A churl's courtesy rarely comes, but either for gain or falsehood.
  • like to some rich churl hoarding up his pelf
  • A churl was a man. This meaning held through the 15th century, but by then the word had taken on negative overtone, meaning "a country person" and then "a low fellow".

Böjningsformer

Pluralchurls

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