culchie
English
editEtymology
editPossibly from Kiltimagh, a town in County Mayo, Ireland, or from Irish coillte (“woods”). Possibly a corruption of the shortening of agricultural to culch + -ie.
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /ˈkʌlt͡ʃi/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
editculchie (plural culchies)
- (Ireland, slang, derogatory) An unsophisticated rural person; a rustic or provincial.
- Synonyms: bogtrotter, bogger, redneck; see also Thesaurus:country bumpkin
- 1987, Roddy Doyle, The Commitments, Dublin: King Farouk:
- Only culchies shop in Clery's but, said Billy.
- 1991, Management Centre Europe, Industrial relations Europe[1], volume 19, number 264:
- 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.
- 2005, Raymond Hickey, Dublin English: evolution and change, John Benjamins Publishing Company:
- A dismissive attitude towards rural accents was all too prevalent: accents outside Dublin being described as 'culchie, bogger, mucker' accents.
- 2013, Eimear McBride, A Girl is a Half-formed Thing, Faber & Faber, published 2014, page 35:
- And I'm from some place so much littler than this. That redneck culchie.
- 2018, Sally Rooney, “Six Months Later (July 2013)”, in Normal People:
- Am I really? he said. I'm not offended but honestly, I thought I was kind of cool.
You're such a culchie, though.
- 2021, Megan Nolan, Acts of Desperation[2], Random House, →ISBN:
- 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.