Mucksavages

n.

Heard in Tipperary and Waterford

Country people or rural folk.

In use

There was nottin at the dance only a shower of mucksavages

Posh English

There was nothing present at the social gathering save for an entire company of rustic bumpkins.

Same phrase, other counties

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