churl

churl

noun

Definition of CHURL

1

an awkward or simple person especially from a small town or the country <as far as he was concerned, anyone from outside the city was a backwater churl>

Synonyms bumpkin, chawbacon, churl, clodhopper, cornball, countryman, hayseed, hillbilly, provincial, rube, rustic, yokel

Related Words boor, clod, clown, gawk, lout, oaf; greenhorn, tenderfoot; peasant, peon; backwoodsman, mountaineer

Near Antonyms slicker, smoothy (or smoothie); metropolitan, suburbanite, urbanite

Antonyms cosmopolitan, cosmopolite, sophisticate

2

a mean grasping person who is usually stingy with money <don't bother asking for donations at that house—the churl who lives there believes that charity begins and ends at home>

Synonyms cheapskate, churl, hunks, niggard, penny-pincher, piker, scrooge, skinflint, tightwad

Related Words hoarder, pack rat, saver

Near Antonyms prodigal, profligate, spender, spendthrift, squanderer, waster, wastrel

3

a person whose behavior is offensive to others <a churl who gets thrown out of parties with remarkable regularity>

Synonyms bastard, beast, bleeder [British], blighter [chiefly British], boor, bounder, bugger, buzzard, cad, chuff, churl, clown, creep, cretin, crud [slang], crumb [slang], cur, dirtbag [slang], dog, fink, heel, hound, joker, louse, lout, pill, rat, rat fink, reptile, rotter, schmuck [slang], scum, scumbag [slang], scuzzball [slang], skunk, sleaze, sleazebag [slang], sleazeball [slang], slime, slimeball [slang], slob, snake, so-and-so, sod [chiefly British], stinkard, stinker, swine, toad, varmint, vermin

Related Words barbarian, brute, caveman, Neanderthal, savage; loudmouth, vulgarian; lowlife, miscreant, rascal, rogue, roughneck, scab, scamp, scoundrel, villain, wretch; booby, doofus [slang], fool, jackass, nincompoop, ninny, nit [chiefly British], nitwit, nut, schmo (or schmoe) [slang]; airhead, birdbrain, blockhead, dink [slang], dolt, dope, dork [slang], goon, half-wit, idiot, imbecile, moron, turkey; brat, insolent, nuisance, pest, snip; snob, snoot, snot; dweeb [slang], nerd

Near Antonyms hero, heroine, idol, role model; gentleman, lady; angel, saint