culchie

/ ˈkʌltʃiː /

noun

1. informal,  a rough or unsophisticated country-dweller from outside Dublin

Word History and Origins

Origin of culchie¹

from a local pronunciation of the Mayo town of Kiltimagh

Example Sentences

Like her “culchie” characters—milk-drinking provincials, in Dublin vocabulary—she was aware that her class status was in transition, that her intellectual and sexual capital was intersecting with real money in ways that were hard to make sense of.

From The New Yorker

Frances and Bobbi, from her debut Conversations With Friends, are ex-lovers with a burgeoning performance poetry partnership, while Marianne and Connell, in its follow-up Normal People, are “culchie” schoolfriends who, like their creator, move to the big city from small-town Ireland.

From The Guardian