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churl

[churl] / tʃɜrl /
NOUN
a rude and ill-bred person
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NOUN
person overly concerned with saving money
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It promised December after December of piqued arguments and cascading overreactions, churls chiming in from all sides, with no argument essentially lame.

From Washington Post • Dec. 6, 2021

No famous person is as adept as Lil Nas X at casually but thoroughly smacking down the ream of Twitter churls inevitably awakened by something like this — maybe Cardi B, or Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

From New York Times • Mar. 30, 2021

All over the Web, churls and haters are claiming that Apple didn’t unveil anything really innovative or surprising at the company’s iPhone launch event in San Francisco today.

From Slate • Sep. 12, 2012

He wears tweeds, has been photographed in the company of an impressively ugly walking stick, and lays his tongue smartly across the backs of churls.

From Time Magazine Archive

Yet it is true: I am better clad better shod and better fed than those — churls.

From "Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village" by Laura Amy Schlitz




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