Citations:churl
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English citations of churl
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- (feudalism, obsolete except historical)
- (by extension)
- (derogatory) A rough, surly, ill-bred person; a boor. [from 14th c.]
- 1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That which is to Come: […], London: […] Nath[aniel] Ponder […], →OCLC, pages 106–107:
- Thus ſay the common People that knovv him, A Saint abroad, and a Devil at home: His poor Family finds it ſo, he is ſuch a churl, ſuch a railer at, and ſo unreaſonable vvith his Servants, that they neither knovv hovv to do for, or ſpeak to him.
- (derogatory) A rough, surly, ill-bred person; a boor. [from 14th c.]