Churn vs Churl - What's the difference?
churn | churl |
To agitate rapidly and repetitively, or to stir with a rowing or rocking motion; generally applies to liquids, notably cream.
* Addison
(figuratively) To produce excessive and sometimes undesirable or unproductive activity or motion.
* '>citation
To move rapidly and repetitively with a rocking motion; to tumble, mix or shake.
A vessel used for churning.
(telecommunications) The time when a consumer switches his/her service provider.
(telecommunications) The mass of people who are ready to switch carriers, expressed by the formula Customer Quits/Customer base .
A rustic; a countryman or labourer; a peasant.
* Emerson
A rough, surly, ill-bred person; a boor.
* Sir Philip Sidney
A selfish miser; an illiberal person; a niggard.
* Drayton
(Theodism) a freedman, ranked below a thane but above a thrall
As nouns the difference between churn and churl
is that churn is a vessel used for churning while churl is a rustic; a countryman or labourer; a peasant.As a verb churn
is to agitate rapidly and repetitively, or to stir with a rowing or rocking motion; generally applies to liquids, notably cream.churn
English
Verb
(en verb)- Now the cream is churned to make butter.
- Churned in his teeth, the foamy venom rose.
- The slope of the terrain, shaped like a funnel, squeezed the growing swell of churning snow into a steep, twisting gorge.
- I was so nervous my stomach was churning .
Derived terms
* churn outNoun
(en noun)- a butter churn
Derived terms
* milk churnchurl
English
Noun
(en noun)- Your rank is all reversed; let men of cloth / Bow to the stalwart churls in overalls.
- A churl's courtesy rarely comes, but either for gain or falsehood.
- like to some rich churl hoarding up his pelf