churl / tʃɜrl /

📖毕业后词汇鬈毛鬈毛虫鬈毛狗鬈毛猪

churl 的定义

n. 名词 noun
  1. a rude, boorish, or surly person.
  2. a peasant; rustic.
  3. a stingy person; miser; skinflint: He was a churl in his affections.
  4. English History. a freeman of the lowest rank.

churl 近义词

n. 名词 noun

rude and ill-bred, a boor; person overly concerned with saving money

更多churl例句

  1. Many years ago I was very much wounded (but I said nothing) to hear myself spoken of as a churl, an impossible and crabbed man.
  2. To give awkwardly denotes the churl; the most difficult and unpleasant part is to give; then, why not add a smile?
  3. There tarried Olaf long and it fared well with him, and always was he mightily beloved by the churl.
  4. A man may value what is his own without being a miser or a churl.
  5. I am no sour churl to take offence at the idle words of a foolish boy.