churl /ˈʧɝ(ə)l/
下賤的人;吝嗇鬼;村夫
Churl, a. Churlish; rough; selfish. [Obs.]
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Churl n.
1. A rustic; a countryman or laborer. “A peasant or churl.”
Your rank is all reversed; let men of cloth
Bow to the stalwart churls in overalls. --Emerson.
2. A rough, surly, ill-bred man; a boor.
A churl's courtesy rarely comes, but either for gain or falsehood. --Sir P. Sidney.
3. A selfish miser; an illiberal person; a niggard.
Like to some rich churl hoarding up his pelf. --Drayton.
churl
n 1: a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or
refinement [syn: peasant, barbarian, boor, Goth,
tyke, tike]
2: a selfish person who is unwilling to give or spend [syn: niggard,
skinflint, scrooge]
3: a bad-tempered person [syn: grouch, grump, crank, crosspatch]
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."