Townie

n.

Heard in Kilkenny, Waterford, Galway, Wexford and Tipperary

A term used by a rural person to describe anyone from a built-up urban area.

In use

Them townies are fair rough

Posh English

Those inhabitants of the town are frightfully coarse.

Same phrase, other counties

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