Etymology

culchie

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Today it means: An unsophisticated rural person; a rustic or provincial. Full definition →

Irish coillte
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  1. Irish · derived fromcoillte“woods”
  2. English todayculchie

Possibly from Kiltimagh, a town in County Mayo, Ireland, or from Irish coillte (“woods”). Possibly a corruption of the shortening of agricultural to culch + -ie.

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