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/ˈkʌlt͡ʃi/ · noun
(Ireland, slang, derogatory) An unsophisticated rural person; a rustic or provincial..
Only culchies shop in Clery's but, said Billy.
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.
A dismissive attitude towards rural accents was all too prevalent: accents outside Dublin being described as 'culchie, bogger, mucker' accents.
And I'm from some place so much littler than this. That redneck culchie.
Am I really? he said. I'm not offended but honestly, I thought I was kind of cool. You're such a culchie, though.
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.
Use culchie when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Culchie means (Ireland, slang, derogatory) An unsophisticated rural person; a rustic or provincial..
Common synonyms include bogtrotter, bogger, redneck, boor.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Only culchies shop in Clery's but, said Billy.
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