culchie
An unsophisticated rural person; a rustic or provincial.
Noun
- An unsophisticated rural person; a rustic or provincial.
- 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...
- 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...
Synonyms: bogtrotter bogger redneck boor bucolic bydlo culchie carl churl corncob cornhusker country bumpkin country cousin clodhopper dubbo joskin hayseed hick hob hobnail hog-rubber honyock hunk lob
Origin
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.