townie

American  

[tou-nee] / ˈtaʊ ni /

Also townee,

noun

Informal.

townies plural

1. a resident of a town, especially a nonstudent resident of a college town.

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townie British  

/ taʊˈniː, ˈtaʊnɪ /

noun

1. a permanent resident in a town, esp as distinct from country dwellers or students

2. a young working-class person who dresses in casual sports clothes

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Etymology

Origin of townie

First recorded in 1820–30; town + -ie

Example Sentences

He is also the son of writer Andre Dubus II, whose troubled family life was a major element of "Townie."

From Reuters • Oct. 16, 2014

In this, With or Without You makes a worthy companion to another excellent recent memoir set in Essex County, Andre Dubus III’s Townie.

From Slate • Mar. 1, 2013

Unfortunately, like Townie, With or Without You loses steam at the end, lapsing into sentimentalism otherwise absent from its pages.

From Slate • Mar. 1, 2013

These are the sorts of questions that Dubus increasingly grapples with in the second half of Townie: who is he really and what kind of man will he become?

From The Guardian • Jul. 29, 2011

Townie is by no means perfect: parts are overwritten, others go on too long and there's a larger problem to do with how Dubus presents himself.

From The Guardian • Jul. 29, 2011