Meaning

noun a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement

noun a selfish person who is unwilling to give or spend

noun a bad-tempered person

originInherited from West Midland Middle English churle (“person not of the nobility or clergy; serf, servant, simpleton, fellow”, East Midland Middle English cherl), from Old English ċeorl (“freeman ranking below a þegn but above a thrall; commoner, peasant; countryman, husbandman; man; husband”), from Proto-West Germanic *kerl, from Proto-Germanic *karilaz (“elder; man”), from Proto-Indo-European…

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