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Meaning of culchie | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
/ˈkʌlt͡ʃi/

Definitions

An unsophisticated rural person; a rustic or provincial.

Ireland, derogatory, slang

Examples

“Only culchies shop in Clery's but, said Billy.”
“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.”
“A dismissive attitude towards rural accents was all too prevalent: accents outside Dublin being described as 'culchie, bogger, mucker' accents.”
“And I'm from some place so much littler than this. That redneck culchie.”
“Am I really? he said. I'm not offended but honestly, I thought I was kind of cool. You're such a culchie, though.”
“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.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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