单词 | churl |
释义 | churln. 1. A male human being, a man; esp. ‘man’ as correlative to ‘wife’, husband. (In Middle English mingled with other senses.) ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > man > [noun] churla800 werec900 rinkeOE wapmanc950 heOE wyeOE gomeOE ledeOE seggeOE shalkOE manOE carmanlOE mother bairnc1225 hemea1250 mother sona1250 hind1297 buck1303 mister mana1325 piecec1325 groomc1330 man of mouldc1330 hathela1350 sire1362 malea1382 fellowa1393 guestc1394 sergeant?a1400 tailarda1400 tulka1400 harlotc1405 mother's sona1470 frekea1475 her1488 masculinea1500 gentlemana1513 horse?a1513 mutton?a1513 merchant1549 child1551 dick1553 sorrya1555 knavea1556 dandiprat1556 cove1567 rat1571 manling1573 bird1575 stone-horse1580 loona1586 shaver1592 slave1592 copemate1593 tit1594 dog1597 hima1599 prick1598 dingle-dangle1605 jade1608 dildoa1616 Roger1631 Johnny1648 boy1651 cod1653 cully1676 son of a bitch1697 cull1698 feller1699 chap1704 buff1708 son of a gun1708 buffer1749 codger1750 Mr1753 he-man1758 fella1778 gilla1790 gloak1795 joker1811 gory1819 covey1821 chappie1822 Charley1825 hombre1832 brother-man1839 rooster1840 blokie1841 hoss1843 Joe1846 guy1847 plug1848 chal1851 rye1851 omee1859 bloke1861 guffin1862 gadgie1865 mug1865 kerel1873 stiff1882 snoozer1884 geezer1885 josser1886 dude1895 gazabo1896 jasper1896 prairie dog1897 sport1897 crow-eater1899 papa1903 gink1906 stud1909 scout1912 head1913 beezer1914 jeff1917 pisser1918 bimbo1919 bozo1920 gee1921 mush1936 rye mush1936 basher1942 okie1943 mugger1945 cat1946 ou1949 tess1952 oke1970 bra1974 muzhik1993 society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > married person > married man > [noun] > husband churla800 lordeOE werec893 husbanda1275 mana1325 masterc1325 sovereign1390 maritea1398 husbandman?a1439 goodman?1507 baron1595 spouse1604 husband of one's bosom1611 old man1673 hubby1682 sposo1741 hub1809 master-man1825 pot and pan1900 mister1931 DH1993 a800 Corp. Gloss. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. 54 Uxorius, ceorl. c1000 West Saxon Gospels: John (Corpus Cambr.) iv. 17 Wel þu cwæde þæt þu næfst ceorl, witodlice þu hæf[de]st fif ceorlas [1160 Hatton cheorles], and se ðe ðu nu hæfst nis ðin ceorl. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 14788 Alde & ȝunge. & were & wif. & cherl. & child. c1230 Hali Meid. 39 Þe croh eorneð iþe fur & þe cheorl chideð. a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 2715 Moyses..hente ðe cherl wið hise wond. c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde i. 1024 Thow hast ful grete care, Lest the cherl may fal out of the Mone. 2. a. In the Old English constitution: a man simply, without rank; a member of the third or lowest rank of freemen. (Only Old English except historical.) ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farmer > [noun] > rustic or peasant tillman940 churla1000 ploughman1223 bondmanc1250 bondc1275 ploughswain1296 countrymanc1300 boundec1320 Hobc1325 charla1400 landmana1400 Jack (John) Upland1402 carlc1405 bowerc1430 peasanta1450 rurala1475 agrest1480 bergier1480 carlleina1500 rustical?1532 ploughboy1544 boor1548 rusticc1550 kern1556 tillsman1561 clown1563 Jocka1568 Jock upalanda1568 John Uponlanda1568 russet coat1568 rustican1570 hind?1577 swain1579 Corydon1581 mountain man1587 Phillis1589 sylvan1589 russeting1597 Joan1598 stubble boy1598 paysan1609 carlota1616 swainling1615 raiyat1625 contadino1630 under-swaina1644 high shoe1647 boorinn1649 Bonhomme1660 high-shoon-man1664 countrywoman1679 villan1685 russet gown1694 ruralist1739 paysanne1748 bauer1799 bonderman1804 bodach1830 contadina1835 agrestian1837 peasantess1841 country jake1845 rufus1846 bonder1848 hayseed1851 bucolic1862 agricole1882 country jay1888 child (son, etc.) of the soil1891 hillbilly1900 palouser1903 kisan1935 woop woop1936 swede-basher1943 society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific ranks of common people > [noun] > person of lowest freeman class ceorla1000 churla1000 society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > [noun] > freeman or not slave > of the lowest class ceorla1000 churla1000 a1000 Laws of Ælfred in B. Thorpe Anc. Laws Eng. (1840) I. 64 B Swa we eac settaþ be eallum hadum, ge ceorle ge eorle. a1000 in B. Thorpe Anc. Laws Eng. (1840) I. 182 Twelfhyndes mannes aþ forstent vi ceorla aþ. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 5589 Ærst he sloh þæ eorles. & þrallede þæ chærles. 1576 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent 367 The Churle or Yeoman. a1640 T. Risdon Chorogr. Surv. Devon (1811) (modernized text) §284 296 The Saxons..made three degrees of free-men; to wit—an earl, a thane, and a churl. 1861 C. H. Pearson Early & Middle Ages Eng. 72 The freeman proper, or ceorl, was the man who preferred to settle on his share of the land won in war. 1876 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest V. xxii. 27 Villanus, a word..beginning to bear a meaning much lower than that of the old English Churl which it translates. b. In a looser and more general application, this sense has come down to modern times, esp. as the antithesis of king, noble, gentle; but often mingled with other senses. ΚΠ 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Pref. Epist. Jerome iv. 65 Chirl Petre, and cherl Joon, of whom either myȝt seyn, and if I be vnwise in word, neuerthelater not in kunnyng. c1386 G. Chaucer Parson's Tale ⁋687 As wel may the cherl be saved as the lord. a1500 Lytylle Childrenes Lytil Bk. (Harl. 541) in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 18 Pyke not þyne Eris ne thy nostrellis; If þou do, men wolle sey þou come of cherlis. 1612 T. Shelton tr. M. de Cervantes Don-Quixote: Pt. 1 iii. i. 111 Rich or poor, Gentleman or Churl. 1845 H. B. Hirst Poems 47 Not the churl I seem, But one of lofty birth. 1877 J. Morley Carlyle in Crit. Misc. (1878) 1st Ser. 198 [He] warns all whom it concerns, from King to churl. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > feudal service > serfdom > [noun] > serf town manOE townsmanOE churl?c1225 carla1300 villeina1325 peasant1550 serf1611 helot1823 robotnik1945 ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 69 [He] seide to þe cnicht þe robbeð hise poure men..for eauer me schal þe cheorl polkin & pilien. 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xi. 121 For may no cherle chartre make ne his catel selle With-outen leue of his lorde. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 239 A cherle [L. servus] was wiþ hym in his chare. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) l. 2136 Of cham chorle [Vesp. thrall] come ful riȝt. c1430 J. Lydgate Chorle & Bird (1818) 17 A chorles chorle is alway woo be goon. 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Churle or villayne regardant, colonarius. a1599 E. Spenser View State Ireland 71 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) Old men, women, children, and hyndes (which they call Churles). 1607 J. Davies Let. in Hist. Tracts (1787) 255 He [Mr. Guyre] had almost a ballibetagh of land, which he manured with his own churles. 4. A countryman, peasant, rustic, boor. (Now usually tinged with other senses.) ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > peasant or rustic > [noun] churlc1275 Hobc1325 Hodgec1386 charla1400 carlc1405 peasanta1450 hoggler1465 agrest1480 hoggener1488 rustical?1532 boor1548 rusticc1550 kern1556 clown1563 Jocka1568 John Uponlanda1568 russet coat1568 rustican1570 hind?1577 Corydon1581 gaffer1589 gran1591 russeting1597 dunghill1608 hog rubber1611 carlota1616 high shoe1647 Bonhomme1660 high-shoon-man1664 cot1695 ruralist1739 Johnnya1774 Harry1796 bodach1830 bucolic1862 cafone1872 bogman1891 country bookie1904 desi1907 middle peasant1929 woodchuck1931 swede-basher1943 moegoe1953 shit-kicker1961 c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 2126 Ælc cheorl [c1300 Otho man] eæt. his sulche. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Wisd. xvii. 16 If forsothe a cherl who were, or a shepperde. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 72 Cherelle or charle, rusticus. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. cxxiiiv The peisantz or chorles of the countrey. 1579 E. K. in E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. July Gloss. Kerne, a Churle or Farmer. 1693 W. Robertson Phraseologia Generalis (new ed.) 335 A churl, or countrey carl: Rusticus. 1783 G. Crabbe Village ii. 27 See the stout churl, in drunken fury great. 1832 Ld. Tennyson Lady of Shalott ii, in Poems (new ed.) 11 The surly village-churls. 5. Used as a term of disparagement or contempt; base fellow, villein. In modern times usually: rude low-bred fellow. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > inferior person > [noun] > held in contempt > male houndOE churlc1300 pagec1385 jockeya1529 sincanterc1540 cullion1575 cur1600 swabber1612 codworm1615 bob-taila1625 pompilliona1625 duck's meata1627 swab1687 person1704 hallion1789 jackeen1810 peat1818 society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > low or vulgar person > [noun] gadlinga1300 geggea1300 churlc1300 filec1300 jot1362 scoutc1380 beggara1400 carla1400 turnbroach14.. villainc1400 gnoffc1405 fellowc1425 cavelc1430 haskardc1487 hastardc1489 foumart1508 strummel?a1513 knapper1513 hogshead?1518 jockeya1529 dreng1535 sneakbill1546 Jack1548 rag1566 scald1575 huddle and twang1578 sneaksby1580 companion1581 lowling1581 besognier1584 patchcock1596 grill1597 sneaksbill1602 scum1607 turnspit1607 cocoloch1610 compeer1612 dust-worm1621 besonioa1625 world-worma1625 besognea1652 gippo1651 Jacky1653 mechanic1699 fustya1732 grub-worm1752 raff1778 person1782 rough scuff1816 spalpeen1817 bum1825 sculpin1834 soap-lock1840 tinka1843 'Arry1874 scruff1896 scruffo1959 c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) 682 Go hom swiþe, fule drit, cherl; Go heþen. c1386 G. Chaucer Wife of Bath's Prol. 460 Metillius, the foule cherl, the swyn. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 1736 Wiþ scorne alle him vnswerde And seide whi is þis cherle [Vesp. carl, Fairf. 14 carle] ferde. 1480 W. Caxton Chron. Eng. clxxxvii. 165 He called the noble Erle and gentil Thomas of lancastre Cherle. 1536 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 138 Come forth..horson gorbelled churryll. 1614 T. Adams Diuells Banket iv. 194 The miserable Churle..not vouchsafeing to answere. 1793 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) II. 689 She's left the gude-fallow and taen the churl. 1821 Ld. Byron Sardanapalus i. ii. 10 Since..this churl has check'd Thy gentle spirit, go. 1841 R. W. Emerson Spiritual Laws in Ess. 1st Ser. (London ed.) 148 Graces..which are lost upon the eye of a churl. 1845 B. Disraeli Sybil III. v. iv. 54 ‘Unmannerly churl!’ exclaimed Sybil. 1874 J. Ruskin Fors Clavigera IV. 102 Sentiments which in all ages have distinguished the gentleman from the churl. 6. spec. One who is sordid, ‘hard’, or stingy in money-matters; a niggard; a miser. Cf. carl n.1[The application of churlish to Nabal in the Bible has apparently done much to make this the prevalent modern sense.] ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > retaining > niggardliness or meanness > [noun] > niggard or mean person nithinga1225 chinch?a1300 nigc1300 chincher1333 shut-purse1340 niggardc1384 haynec1386 nigona1400 pinchera1425 pinchpenny?c1425 pynepenya1450 pelt1511 chincherda1529 churl1535 pinchbeck1538 carl?1542 penny-father1549 nipfarthing1566 nipper?1573 holdfast1576 pinchpence1577 pinch fistc1580 pinchfart1592 shit-sticks1598 clunchfist1606 puckfist1606 sharp-nose1611 spare-good1611 crib1622 hog grubber?1626 dry-fist1633 clusterfist1652 niggardling1654 frummer1659 scrat1699 sting-hum1699 nipcheese1785 pincha1825 screw1825 wire-drawer1828 close-fist1861 penny-pincher1875 nip-skin1876 parer1887 pinch-plum1892 cheapskate1899 meanie1902 tightwad1906 stinge1914 penny-peeler1925 mean1938 stiff1967 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Isa. xxxii. A Then shal the nygarde be no more called gentle, ner the churle lyberall. 1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Pivv/2 A Churle, ingratus, parcus. a1593 H. Smith 3 Serm. (1624) 17 When the Churles barnes were full, he bade his soule take rest. a1600 T. Deloney Pleasant Hist. Iohn Winchcomb (1619) i. sig. Aiij Was not at any time found a churle of his purse. 1768 L. Sterne Sentimental Journey I. 36 When a few words will rescue misery out of her distress, I hate the man who can be a churl of them. 1885 M. E. Braddon Wyllard's Weird II. i. 4 Your Parisian landlord is a churl and a niggard. Phrases to put a churl upon a gentleman: see quot. ΚΠ 1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue at Churl To put a churl upon a gentleman; to drink malt liquor immediately after having drank wine. Compounds In combinations. a. as churl-king, churl-mind, churl-saving. ΚΠ 1595 Polimanteia (1881) 57 More courteous then the churle-sauing Abigal. 1861 C. H. Pearson Early & Middle Ages Eng. 152 Eadwig..who was called contemptuously the churl-king, because only the people were for him. 1874 J. Ruskin Fors Clavigera IV. 103 The conception..seems ludicrous to the impotent churl mind. b. churl's, in plant names: churl's cress n. = churl's mustard ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Cruciferae (crucifers) > [noun] > cress cressa700 pepperworta1500 dittany1548 sciatica cress1562 way-cresses1562 churl's cress1578 churl's mustard1578 dittander1578 cockweed1585 colt1585 green mustard1597 peasant's mustard1597 sciatica grass1597 scar-wort1657 yellow-seed1818 money tree1934 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball v. lxii. 628 The second kind [of Thlaspi] is called..in high Douche Baurn senff or Baurn kress..that is to say..Churles Cresse. churl's mustard applied by Lyte to a cruciferous plant, probably Lepidium campestre. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Cruciferae (crucifers) > [noun] > cress cressa700 pepperworta1500 dittany1548 sciatica cress1562 way-cresses1562 churl's cress1578 churl's mustard1578 dittander1578 cockweed1585 colt1585 green mustard1597 peasant's mustard1597 sciatica grass1597 scar-wort1657 yellow-seed1818 money tree1934 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball v. lxii. 628 I thinke it best to call [thlaspi] churles mustard. churl's head n. Knapweed or Hardheads ( Centaurea nigra). churl's treacle n. a species of garlic ( Allium sativum). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online June 2022). † churladj. Obsolete. Churlish. (Perhaps attributive.) Π 1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. (citing Ford). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † churlv. Obsolete. 1. intransitive. To take a husband; cf. wive v. ΚΠ a1000 in B. Thorpe Anc. Laws Eng. (1840) II. 346. 19 Ðær man eft wifaþ, oððe wif eft ceorlaþ. c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) xxii. 30 Hig ne ceorliað [Hatton cheorliaþ] on þam æriste. 2. transitive. To play the churl or niggard towards (a person), to begrudge. Cf. churl n. 6. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > retaining > niggardliness or meanness > be niggardly of [verb (transitive)] > treat in niggardly manner princhea1393 pinch1557 scantle1581 scant1607 shavea1610 niggarda1616 churl1696 nickel-and-dime1913 1696 J. Aubrey Misc. (1857) 182 You need not, says he, churle me in a piece of meat. 3. intransitive. To grumble at like a churl. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > displeasure > discontent or dissatisfaction > state of complaining > complain about [verb (transitive)] plainc1400 muse1402 plaintc1425 grudgec1450 complain1509 murmell1546 to cry out of1548 repine1577 complain1584 remonstrate1625 churl1627 bemurmur1837 holler1936 1627 W. Sclater Briefe Expos. 2 Thess. (1629) 209 Churling at Gods hand in our afflictions. 1627 W. Sclater Briefe Expos. 2 Thess. (1629) 4 Murmure, and little lesse then churle at him, if in the least sort hee afflict vs. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.a800adj.1864v.a1000 |
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