Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Informal A permanent resident of a town, especially a resident of a college town who is academically unaffiliated with the local college or university.
Wiktionary
- n. UK, US A person living in a university area who is not associated with the university.
- n. US A person born and raised in an area of Massachusetts who is proud of his or her Irish-American community, culture, and heritage.
- n. UK A person who has moved from a town or city to a rural area.
- n. UK A person familiar with the town (urbanised centre of a city) and with going out on the town; a street-wise person.
- n. UK, pejorative A chav.
- n. US A working-class citizen in a metropolitan area.
- n. Australia, New Zealand, informal A person who lives in a city or town, or has an urban outlook.
Etymologies
- From town + -ie. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Your humble e-scribbler, unrepentant townie that he is - the title townie bastard is already claimed - missed it completely as well.”
“I was what those who got the full university experience called a townie.”
“This will take a bit of work on your part because you don't need the crazy parents with two horny kids calling the townie police.”
“This presentation exhibits a carefully blended balance between historical provenance, cultural exploration, and "townie" pride.”
Creating, Managing & Pres. Dig. Assets: The Making Of Ann Arbor
“The practice of equipping a "townie" with suspension forks, I know manufacturers have been doing it for years, but it's really stupid man.”
“And of course no NAHBS would be complete without impossibly lavish "townie" bikes that cost more than your town:”
“Other colleges with similar situations are Yale and Dartmouth, although the racial component is not evident in the "townie" population around Dartmouth.”
“I met my first husband he was a "townie" and stayed after I graduated.”
“That's very rich coming from somebody who is not above slingin' in dismissals and offering little more than descriptions of that which is being dismissed beyond "townie" or on other files "American" or "Connie" or whatever. . .”
“Maybe if they werent so rude to workers and just thought for a moment that people dont like being called a "townie" in a condecending then the local media wouldnt be so hostile towards them … perlogik”
Cav. Daily: Hook's UVa Coverage "Viciously Slanted" at cvillenews.com
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘townie’.
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New Englander
Words and phrases said to be exclusive to N.E.
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Boston, you're my home.
Boston shibboleths.
To you retahded bastids who ask us to say Pahk the cah in Hahvahd Yahd: You can’t pahk your cah in the yahd, it’s a friggin’ campus. Pahk it in Hahvahd Squaya...three deckah, packie, pahty, staht, y'wanna staht, barrel, townie, statie, scrod, metco, so don't i, dunkies and 29 more...
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