Crabbed vs Churlish - What's the difference?
crabbed | churlish | Related terms |
Bad-tempered or cantankerous.
Cramped, bent.
* 1800(?) Robert Southey, Winter
(of handwriting) Crowded together and difficult to read.
(crab)
of or pertaining to a serf, peasant, or rustic
* 1996 , Jeet Heer, Gravitas , Autumn 1996
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.
Crabbed is a related term of churlish.
As adjectives the difference between crabbed and churlish
is that crabbed is bad-tempered or cantankerous while churlish is of or pertaining to a serf, peasant, or rustic.As a verb crabbed
is (crab).crabbed
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- A wrinkled crabbed man they picture thee,
- Old Winter, with a rugged beard as grey
- As the long moss upon the apple-tree;
Derived terms
* crabbedly * crabbednessVerb
(head)churlish
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- [...] 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.