Pronunciations
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/ˈkʌlt͡ʃi/
Noun
An unsophisticated rural person; a rustic or provincial.
Usage- Ireland
- Derogatory
- Slang
- Synonyms
- Examples
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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.
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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.