churl
Ill-mannered fellow
A churl is a rude, surly person—someone ill-mannered and bad-tempered.
The word carries an old-fashioned, literary flavor: Don't be such a churl about it.
Churlish, the adjective form, sees more use: a churlish refusal to help.
Originally churl meant a peasant or common person, and the modern sense preserves that class contempt—boorish behavior unfit for polite company.
Crude, ill-mannered person
- oafStupid clumsy person
- bumpkinUnsophisticated country dweller
- clodEarth lump or dolt
- bruteCruel, violent person
ruffian · philistine · barbarian · vulgarian · yahoo · clodhopper · roughneck · cad
Bonded agricultural laborer
- villeinFeudal tenant farmer
- bondsmanOne who posts bail
- rusticRural and unrefined
- peasantLow-status agricultural laborer
commoner · lowborn · tenant · laborer · cottager · vassal · thrall · yokel
Stingy person
- tightwadStingy person, slang
- penny-pincherExcessively frugal person
- scroogeMiserly, stingy person
- cheapskateStingy person
niggard · hoarder · pinchpenny · stingy · parsimonious · miserly · tight-fisted · close-fisted
Lacking good manners
- coarseRough in texture
- vulgarCrude or indecent
- crudeUnpolished, raw state
- surlyBad-tempered and unfriendly
gruff · ill-mannered · boorish · impolite · discourteous · ungracious · unmannerly · disrespectful
lout
Crude, ill-mannered person
brute · ruffian · philistine · barbarian · vulgarian · yahoo · clodhopper · roughneck · cad · hooligan
serf
Bonded agricultural laborer
peasant · commoner · lowborn · tenant · laborer · cottager · vassal · thrall · yokel · hind
skinflint
Stingy person
- tightwadStingy person, slang
- penny-pincherExcessively frugal person
- scroogeMiserly, stingy person
cheapskate · niggard · hoarder · pinchpenny · stingy · parsimonious · miserly · tight-fisted · close-fisted · grudging
uncouth
Lacking good manners
surly · gruff · ill-mannered · boorish · impolite · discourteous · ungracious · unmannerly · disrespectful · insolent
- medieval societyserfs, noble lineage, peasants, serf, heir
- Anglo-SaxonsBeowulf, Mercia, Wessex, Northumbria, East Anglia
- old insultsknave, varlet, scoundrel, rogue, blackguard
- penny pincherscheapskate, miser, penny pincher, penny-pincher, scrooge
- boorsboor, lout, oaf, vulgarian, yahoo
- Anglo-SaxonWessex, Mercia, Essex, Sussex, Kent
churlgentleman
Courteous, honorable man
aristocrat · nobleman · lady · courtier · gentlewoman
churlspendthrift
Reckless with money
prodigal · philanthropist · benefactor · profligate · spender