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Churlish vs Curmudgeon - What's the difference?

churlish | curmudgeon |

As an adjective churlish

is of or pertaining to a serf, peasant, or rustic.

As a noun curmudgeon is

a miser.

churlish

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • of or pertaining to a serf, peasant, or rustic
  • * 1996 , Jeet Heer, Gravitas , Autumn 1996
    • [...] the eloquence and truth of his tribute stands in marked contrast to Kramer's churlish caricature of Kael as a happy pig wallowing in the dirt.
  • rude, surly, ungracious
  • stingy or grudging
  • (of soil) difficult to till, lacking pliancy; unmanageable
  • *1730–1774 , Oliver Goldsmith, Introductory to Switzerland
  • *:Where the bleak Swiss their stormy mansion tread,t
  • *:And force a churlish soil for scanty bread.

    • Synonyms

    * (of or pertaining to a serf) rustic * (rude or surly) cross-grained, rude, surly, ungracious * (stingy or grudging) grudging, illiberal, miserly, niggardly, stingy

    Related terms

    * churl * churldom * churled * churlhood * churlishly * churlishness

    curmudgeon

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) A miser.
  • An ill-tempered (and frequently old) person full of stubborn ideas or opinions.
    • There's a cranky curmudgeon working at the hospital who gives all the patients and other doctors flak.
    John Doe's old age and stubborn aversion to new ideas make him a curmudgeon of a candidate.
  • * 1996 , Jeet Heer, Gravitas , Autumn 1996
    • After a while, as cultural debates became more polarized, the editorial tone of the New Criterion went from being charmingly curmudgeon to being bitterly shrill.
  • * 2006 , The New York Times [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/18/technology/circuits/19POGUE-EMAIL.html?ex=1179201600&en=f058e59799358d61&ei=5070]
    • How to Be a Curmudgeon on the Internet
  • * 2007 , The Times [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/court_and_social/modern_times/article1726275.ece]
    • How should I respond, without appearing to be a curmudgeon ?