culchie
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 14
- Words With Friends
- 17
- Letters
- 7
Definition of culchie
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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(Ireland, derogatory, slang)An unsophisticated rural person; a rustic or provincial.
“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.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
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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