churl

noun6

1. •
   A free peasant (as opposed to a serf) of the lowest rank, below an earl and a thane; a freeman; also (more generally), a person without royal or noble status; a commoner.
2. •
   A rough, surly, ill-bred person; a boor.

   • [A] churles curtesie rathely comes but either for gaine, or falshood. — 1580
3. •
   A freedman, ranked below a thane but above a thrall.
4. •
   A bondman or serf.
5. •
   (no longer used) A countryman, a peasant, a rustic.

   • And, as the mazy web she whirls, / She sees the surly village-churls, / And the red cloaks of market-girls, / Pass onward from Shalott. — 1832
6. •
   (no longer used) A person who is stingy, especially with money; a selfish miser, a niggard.

   • Juli[et]. […] VVhats heere? a cup in my true loues hand? / Poison I see hath bin his timelesse end: / O churle [referring to Romeo], drunke all, and left no friendly drop. — 1591