culchie

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
14
Words With Friends
17
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/ˈkʌlt͡ʃi/

Definition of culchie

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (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.”

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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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