culchie

plural culchies · alternative Culchie · alternative culchee · alternative culshie

1. IrelandderogatoryslangAn unsophisticated rural person; a rustic or provincial.

   Only culchies shop in Clery's but, said Billy.

   1987, Roddy Doyle, The Commitments, Dublin: King Farouk

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   For most of his quarter-century in Ireland's parliament, he was regarded as the archetypal "culchie", Dublin slang for an unpolished, reactionary rural type.

   1991, Management Centre Europe, Industrial relations Europe, volume 19, number 264

   A dismissive attitude towards rural accents was all too prevalent: accents outside Dublin being described as 'culchie, bogger, mucker' accents.

   2005, Raymond Hickey, Dublin English: evolution and change, John Benjamins Publishing Company

   And I'm from some place so much littler than this. That redneck culchie.

   2013, Eimear McBride, A Girl is a Half-formed Thing, Faber & Faber, published 2014, page 35

   Am I really? he said. I'm not offended but honestly, I thought I was kind of cool. You're such a culchie, though.

   2018, Sally Rooney, “Six Months Later (July 2013)”, in Normal People

   She was from a town considered even more small-time and hokey than my own by the confident Dublin people, who considered everyone from outside their own hopelessly provincial suburbs to be ‘culchies’, farmers, inbred and unsophisticated.

   2021, Megan Nolan, Acts of Desperation, Random House, →ISBN

   Synonyms: bogtrotter, bogger, redneck, bogger, bogtrotter, boor, bucolic, bydlo