churl (2 not earlier than the 16th cent.)
1.
countryman, peasant, rustic, boor
Err. III. i. 24
“Good meat . . . is
common; that every churl affords”
; (hence) rude, low-bred fellow
Rom. V. iii. 163
“O churl! drunk all . .
.?,”
Tim. I. ii. 26.
2.
miser, niggard
Sonn. i. 12
“And, tender churl,
mak'st waste in niggarding”
; fig. lxix. 11
