In Hiberno-English and Ulster-Scots, culchie is a term sometimes used to describe a person from rural Ireland. In Dublin, it is often used to describe someone from outside the Dublin Region excluding certain commuter towns in the Greater Dublin Area like Maynooth and Bray. Likewise, in Belfast the term refers to anyone from outside the Greater Bel...
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what the Yanks would call a hick or hillbilly
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http://www.thecraic.net/glossary.html
A slightly derogatory term used to describe people from the countryside or rural locations.
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https://techlifeireland.com/irish-society/glossary-of-irish-terms/
The pejorative Hiberno-English term that urban sophisticates use to describe their rural cousins. But where does it come from? Many have suggested “cúl an tí”, as in the “back of the house”: down the country you enter through the back door rather than the front; or, as servants, you entered the back door of your bosses’ homes. Another o...
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