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Scrooge vs Churl - What's the difference?

scrooge | churl |

As a proper noun scrooge

is the fictional character ebenezer scrooge of dickens’s .

As a noun churl is

a rustic; a countryman or labourer; a peasant.

scrooge

English

Noun

  • A miserly person; a person with an excessive dislike of spending money or other resources.

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    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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