Synonyms of the word

churl

• n. A rustic; a countryman or labourer; a free peasant (as opposed to a serf).
• n. A rough, surly, ill-bred person; a boor.
• n. A selfish miser; an illiberal person; a niggard.
• n. (Theodism) a freedman, ranked below a thane but above a thrall.

barbarian

• adj. Relating to people, countries or customs perceived as uncivilized or inferior.
• n. (historical) a non-Greek or a non-Roman.
• n. An uncivilized or uncultured person, originally compared to the hellenistic Greco-Roman civilisation;…
• n. (derogatory) Someone from a developing country or backward culture.
• n. A warrior, clad in fur or leather, associated with sword and sorcery stories.
• n. (derogatory) A person destitute of culture; a Philistine.
• n. A cruel, savage, brutal person; one without pity or humanity.

boor

• n. A peasant.
• n. A Boer, white South African of Dutch or Huguenot descent.
• n. A yokel, country bumpkin.
• n. An uncultured person.

crank

• adj. (slang) strange, weird, odd.
• adj. sick; unwell; infirm.
• adj. (nautical, of a ship) Liable to capsize because of poorly stowed cargo or insufficient ballast.
• adj. Full of spirit; brisk; lively; sprightly; overconfident; opinionated.
• n. A bent piece of an axle or shaft, or an attached arm perpendicular, or nearly so, to the end of a shaft…
• n. The act of converting power into motion, by turning a crankshaft.
• n. (archaic) Any bend, turn, or winding, as of a passage.
• n. (informal) An ill-tempered or nasty person.
• n. A twist or turn of the mind; caprice; whim; crotchet; also, a fit of temper or passion.
• n. (informal, Britain, dated in US) A person who is considered strange or odd by others. They may behave…
• n. (informal) An advocate of a pseudoscience movement.
• n. (US, slang) methamphetamine.
• n. (rare) A twist or turn in speech; a conceit consisting in a change of the form or meaning of a word.
• n. (obsolete) A sick person; an invalid.
• n. (slang) penis.
• v. (transitive) To turn by means of a crank.
• v. (intransitive) To turn a crank.
• v. (intransitive, of a crank or similar) To turn.
• v. (transitive) To cause to spin via other means, as though turned by a crank.
• v. (intransitive) To act in a cranky manner; to behave unreasonably and irritably, especially through complaining.
• v. (intransitive) To be running at a high level of output or effort.
• v. (intransitive, dated) To run with a winding course; to double; to crook; to wind and turn.

crosspatch

• n. A grumpy, bad-tempered or irascible person.

grouch

• n. A complaint, a grumble, a fit of ill-humor.
• n. One who is grumpy or irritable.
• v. (intransitive) To be grumpy or irritable; to complain.

grump

• n. (informal) A habitually grumpy or complaining person.
• v. (informal, intransitive) To complain.
• v. (informal, intransitive) To be grumpy.

hoarder

• n. One who hoards; one who accumulates, collects, and stores.

niggard

• adj. Sparing; stinting; parsimonious.
• adj. Miserly or stingy.
• n. A miser or stingy person; a skinflint.
• n. A false bottom in a grate, used for saving fuel.

peasant

• n. A member of the lowly social class that toils on the land, constituted by small farmers and tenants, sharecroppers,…
• n. A country person.
• n. (pejorative) An uncouth, crude or ill-bred person.
• n. (strategy games) A worker unit.

scrooge

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

skinflint

• n. One who is excessively stingy or cautious with money; a tightwad; a miser.

tike

• n. Alternative spelling of tyke (mongrel dog).
• n. A boorish person.
• n. Archaic form of tick (a kind of arthropod).

tyke

• n. (dialectal) A mongrel dog.
• n. (colloquial) A small child, especially a cheeky or mischievous one.
• n. (dated, chiefly Britain) A crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement.
• n. (Britain, informal) A person from Yorkshire; a Yorkshireman or Yorkshirewoman.
• n. (Australia, New Zealand, informal, derogatory) A Roman Catholic.