• (RP) IPA: /ˈtʃɜːlɪʃ/
• (America) IPA: /ˈtʃɝːlɪʃ/

churlish

1. 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.

   Synonyms: rustic
2. Rude, surly, ungracious. [from late 14th c.]

   Synonyms: cross-grained, rude, surly, ungracious

   • 1605, Francis Bacon, “The First Booke”, in The Tvvoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: Printed [by Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes, […], OCLC 932932554 ↗, folio 11, recto ↗:

     [A]nd it is without all controuerſie, that learning doth make the minds of men gentle, generous, maniable, and pliant to gouernment; whereas Ignorance makes them churlish[,] thwart, and mutinous; [...]

3. Stingy or grudging.

   Synonyms: grudging, illiberal, miserly, niggardly, stingy

4. (of soil) Difficult to till, lacking pliancy; unmanageable.
   • 1730–1774, Oliver Goldsmith, Introductory to Switzerland

     Where the bleak Swiss their stormy mansion tread,

     And force a churlish soil for scanty bread.

• Russian: мужицкий
• Spanish: paleto, rústico, bruto

• German: ungehobelt, unfreundlich, mürrisch, griesgrämig
• Italian: villano
• Portuguese: rústico, grosseiro
• Russian: гру́бый
• Spanish: poco afable, maleducado, grosero

• German: knauserig, widerwillig
• Russian: скупо́й

• Russian: труднообрабатываемый