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Churl vs Clod - What's the difference?

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Churl is a related term of clod.


As nouns the difference between churl and clod

is that churl is a rustic; a countryman or labourer; a peasant while clod is a lump of something, especially of earth or clay.

As a verb clod is

to pelt with clods.

churl

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A rustic; a countryman or labourer; a peasant.
  • * Emerson
    • Your rank is all reversed; let men of cloth / Bow to the stalwart churls in overalls.
  • A rough, surly, ill-bred person; a boor.
  • * Sir Philip Sidney
    • A churl's courtesy rarely comes, but either for gain or falsehood.
  • A selfish miser; an illiberal person; a niggard.
  • * Drayton
    • like to some rich churl hoarding up his pelf
  • (Theodism) a freedman, ranked below a thane but above a thrall

    • See also

    * churlish

    External links

    [http://www.angelfire.com/folk/anglia/wordhoard.html] [http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~catshaman/23erils2/0Anglo.htm]

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    clod

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A lump of something, especially of earth or clay.
  • * Milton
    • clods of iron and brass
  • * E. Fairfax
    • clods of blood
  • * Francis Bacon
    • The earth that casteth up from the plough a great clod', is not so good as that which casteth up a smaller ' clod .
  • * T. Burnet
    • this cold clod of clay which we carry about with us
  • * 2010 ,
    • "What a bunch of hooey," I said under my breath, tossing a dirt clod over my shoulder against the locked-up garden shed.
  • The ground; the earth; a spot of earth or turf.
  • * Jonathan Swift
    • the clod where once their sultan's horse has trod
  • A stupid person; a dolt.
    • (Dryden)
  • Part of a shoulder of beef, or of the neck piece near the shoulder.

    • Verb

    (clodd)
  • To pelt with clods.
    • (Jonson)
  • (Scotland) To throw violently; to hurl.
    • (Sir Walter Scott)
  • To collect into clods, or into a thick mass; to coagulate; to clot.
    • clodded gore
  • * G. Fletcher
    • Clodded in lumps of clay.
    (Webster 1913)

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