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small-townie en · NOUN

Etymology

From small town + -ie (“person associated”).

Meanings

1. (informal) A native or inhabitant of a small town.
   • People in Brum are too busy enjoying the night life and culture to sit at home on the Internet argueing^([sic]) with small-townies from..., er, well somewhere, erm, over there. 1999 October 8, Martin Nike, “Aberystwyth city”, in uk.local.birmingham (Usenet), archived from the original on 28 May 2026:
   • Come on, Robert. "'Shepherd' indicates a small-townie" is really a stretch. 1999 February 28, Robert Stonehouse, quoting volker multhopp, “Sonnet No 85: My tongue-tied Muse in manners holds her still,”, in humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare (Usenet), archived from the original on 28 May 2026:
   • I feel that lots of legislators, especially the small-townies, didn’t stop to realize what this measure means to the state as a whole. 1957 June 14, Lawrence Dame, quoting Benton W. Powell, “Second in a Series: How Did Intangible Tax Bill Slip Past?”, in Sarasota Herald-Tribune, 32nd year, number 252, Sarasota, Fla., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2, column 2:
   • Author Hodgman keenly remembers his small-town childhood from all sides: churchgoers and alcoholics, kindness and bullying, adolescent crushes, baffling foes and off-limits subjects that no small-townie discusses. 2015 March 15, Terri Schlichenmeyer, “Son struggles with elderly mother”, in The Sun News, Myrtle Beach, S.C., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2E, column 3:
   • I don't know the actual demographics for the US, so I'll make a wild-assed guess that the people who live in rural, small-town and isolated small city areas of the country make up a majority of the nation's total population, while inhabitants of "dense corridors" such as you mentioned taking up the minority. If this is, indeed, the case, and by "representative" you mean numerically superiour,^([sic]) then the country folk and small-townies are more representative. 2002 February 7, T. R. Ellis, “Violence by women I”, in soc.men (Usenet), archived from the original on 28 May 2026:
   • At least in Ontaro, these small-townies stayed in the small towns. And at least the urbanites, with some degree of social sophistication, aren't vastly outnumbered by their close-minded fellows. 1996 September 24, Craig, “Focus Canada ( Ted Byfield Calgary Sun)”, in ont.general (Usenet), archived from the original on 28 May 2026:
   • RECENT criticism of Glasgow keelies by small-townies is rather amusing. For drunken rowdiness on a Friday or Saturday night, Gorbals Cross does not compare with the area of Buchanan Street. 1955 September 30, Dozy Dotes [pseudonym], “It’s Amusing”, in Daily Record, number 18,694, Glasgow, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2, column 2:

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townie