Churl"ish, a.
1.
Like a churl; rude; cross-grained; ungracious; surly; illiberal; niggardly.
"
Churlish benefits."
Ld. Burleigh.
Half mankind maintain a churlish strife.
Cowper.
2.
Wanting pliancy; unmanageable; unyielding; not easily wrought; as, a churlish soil; the churlish and intractable nature of some minerals.
Boyle.
© Webster 1913.