Meaning of culchie | Babel Free

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.”

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