a. rare. [f. CHURL + -Y1.] Churlish, rough, surly.
1620. Quarles, Div. Poems, Jonah (1638), 11. Many a boystrous brush, and churley knock.
1863. Longf., Wayside Inn, Music. T., vii. 5. He was the churliest of the churls.
1869. Blackmore, Lorna D., ii. (ed. 12), 5. He was churly to little boys when his wife had taken their money.
