towny

` I met a "towny," and he stood me too good a dinner, 'I explained.

The Spike 1903

They enjoyed a fine, full flesh meal in the middle of the day, and then threw themselves down on their cots and sweated and slept till it was cool enough to go out with their "towny," whose vocabulary contained less than six hundred words, and the Adjective, and whose views on every conceivable question they had heard many times before.

Under the Deodars Rudyard Kipling 1900

He contented himself with a mild expression of his surprise at the conduct of the Sydney authorities in putting a "towny" over his head without so much as a word of notice.

Stingaree 1893

This made her think that the elder man was a "towny," and not a frontiersman like the other.

Mr. Jack Hamlin's Mediation Bret Harte 1869

But to revert to less "towny" and much more interesting matters passing on board.

A Boy's Voyage Round the World Samuel Smiles 1858

"I met a 'towny,' and he stood me too good a dinner," I explained.

THE SPIKE 2010

Putting on a proper old grumpy face to prove this is a little more than just another reality TV show, Jimmy Doherty fronts a series in which nine towny couples compete for the chance to run a 25-acre Suffolk farm.

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Sureal discussion on farming today, the early commedy spot, where discussion between randomly selected towny beeboid and talking head , on fishstocks, manages to avoid mentioning EU fisheries policy.

Open Thread 2009

It DOES seem like the perfect place -- they generally love their local stores and keeping things small-towny-yet-glamorously-hip.

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Sarah Palin gets a big "You Go-girl," with Republicans in tow lovin 'the new urban-towny lingo style.

Yvonne R. Davis: Sarah Palin: America's Affirmative Action Candidate 2008