culchie
/ˈkʌlt͡ʃi/
culchie noun: an unsophisticated rural person; a rustic or provincial.
Noun
culchie (plural culchies)
- 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 Europe, volume 19, number 264
- Synonyms:
- bogtrotter, bogger, redneck, boor, bucolic, bydlo, carl, churl, corncob, cornhusker
Synonyms of culchie
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Forms of culchie
| plural | culchies |
|---|---|
| alternative form | Culchie |
| alternative form | culchee |
| alternative form | culshie |
Origin of culchie
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.
Questions about culchie
- What does culchie mean?
- Culchie means an unsophisticated rural person; a rustic or provincial.
- What part of speech is culchie?
- Culchie is a noun.
- How do you pronounce culchie?
- Culchie is pronounced /ˈkʌlt͡ʃi/.
- What is the plural of culchie?
- The plural of culchie is culchies.
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