What is the meaning of Cherl?

Someone not belonging to the nobility or clergy:

  1. A serf or peasant; a feudal tenant farmer.
  2. A servant or bondsman; one who serves a noble.
  3. A freeman (as opposed to a slave)

A serf or peasant; a feudal tenant farmer.

A servant or bondsman; one who serves a noble.

A freeman (as opposed to a slave)

A boor or simpleton; an ignorant or unrefined person.

A male person; a chap, fellow or guy.

A husband; a male partner in marriage.

chē̆rl, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

churl, n.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Dobson, E[ric] J. (1957), English pronunciation 1500-1700, second edition, volume II: Phonology, Oxford: Clarendon Press, published 1968, →OCLC, § 18, page 491.

Jordan, Richard (1974),  Eugene Crook, transl., Handbook of the Middle English Grammar: Phonology (Janua Linguarum. Series Practica; 218), The Hague: Mouton & Co. N.V., →DOI, § 84, page 111.

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