Hill billy

n.

Heard in Armagh and Sligo

A person who lives in a remote, mountainous or rural area.

In use

Go home ya hill billy.

Posh English

Return to your habitation, you rustic mountaineer.

Same phrase, other counties

  • The hillThe town centre housing area on Holborn Hill and Barrack Street in Sligo.
  • The pike hillA steep hill near Dungarvan, Co. Waterford.
  • Billy canA tall slender container used to boil water, also fitted with a lid and handle. It was…
  • Billy to JackMoving back and forth repeatedly.
  • Bunkers hillA steep incline or decline, depending on which way your looking.
  • Fookin hillAn exclamation of sudden pain, dismay, or acute annoyance.