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culchie en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈkʌlt͡ʃi/

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.

Meanings

1. (Ireland, derogatory, slang) An unsophisticated rural person; a rustic or provincial.
   • Am I really? he said. I'm not offended but honestly, I thought I was kind of cool. You're such a culchie, though. 2018, Sally Rooney, “Six Months Later (July 2013)”, in Normal People:
   • Only culchies shop in Clery's but, said Billy. 1987, Roddy Doyle, The Commitments, Dublin: King Farouk:
   • 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. 1991, Management Centre Europe, Industrial relations Europe, volume 19, number 264:
   • And I'm from some place so much littler than this. That redneck culchie. 2013, Eimear McBride, A Girl is a Half-formed Thing, Faber & Faber, published 2014, page 35:
   • 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. 2021, Megan Nolan, Acts of Desperation, Random House, →ISBN:
   • A dismissive attitude towards rural accents was all too prevalent: accents outside Dublin being described as 'culchie, bogger, mucker' accents. 2005, Raymond Hickey, Dublin English: evolution and change, John Benjamins Publishing Company:

Forms

Relateds

jackeen · spalpeen

Synonyms

lob · bogtrotter · bydlo · hog-rubber · country bumpkin · bogtrotter · country cousin · hobnail · clodhopper · woolly back · carl · cornhusker · dubbo · corncob · hick · honyock · culchie · bucolic · bogger · rustic · provincial · churl · joskin · hob · redneck · promdi · hayseed · bogger · boor · hunk · rube · yokel