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Possibly from Kiltimagh, a town in County Mayo, Ireland.

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Examples

  • To those unfamiliar with the word culchie: it is slang for a person from outside Dublin, or beyond the Pale.

    A culchie joins Culch.ie 2009

  • I am not for one moment suggesting that the people behind the masks were little more than wannabe hardmen and rebel song-loving culchie geeks out to get that same sort of thrill from seventies terrorist gear that similar oddballs in other parts of the world get from throwing on some Waffen SS kit.

    Archive 2009-08-01 Johnny Guitar 2009

  • Alan - God we missed you you darling right-wing culchie you!

    Dafydd Trystan Davies MP 2008

  • Aye, I thought I could detect a culchie inbred-hillbilly accent.

    The Bloomsday Dead Adrian McKinty 2007

  • And that goes for that culchie whom I sense is in your immediate vicinity.

    The Rowan McCaffrey, Anne 1990

  • Even though I am a culchie, I have never hunted, or gone hare coursing or even shot a pheasant.

    Politics.ie Supermanpolitician 2010

  • Ours is a tiny culchie world and we all know each other all too well.

    Slugger O'Toole 2010

  • Ours is a tiny culchie world and we all know each other all too well.

    Slugger O'Toole 2010

  • That's the view of a bunch of culchie, sorry, rural TDs who seem to think that people in the country have the right to drive while drunk.

    Independent.ie - Frontpage RSS Feed 2010

  • Even though I am a culchie, I have never hunted, or gone hare coursing or even shot a pheasant.

    Politics.ie Supermanpolitician 2010

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  • ""You have a crude culchie mind," he said, pissing himself laughing. "They're only pictures. They won't do you any harm.""

    The Dirty Dust by Máirtín Ó Cadhain, translated by Alan Titley, p 135

    June 5, 2016