Derogatory word or idiom for city person/people who aren’t to adapted to country/rural / city life.
I’m looking for something people from countryside would use, especially when they refer to that person’s inability to adapt to the country life.
Townie is the obvious answer, but tourist or tripper often carry overtones of scorn and ‘urban, squat and full of guile’. I knew a young girl who wanted to hide under a seat in a car but couldn’t believe she was leaving in it. But to
keep her out, I showed her pictures.
If you have
a City
slicker acronym, it is an idiomatic expression of someone accustomed to a city or urban lifestyle. In rural history, the term, “education” was typically used as a term of ridicule by rural Americans who regarded them with amusement.
Why’s the importance of education being ignored through a professional newspaper?
Is there any way to describe a young,
college-educated, work environment as a yuppie. What are these definitions?
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Kind of an obscure one, and I don’t believe it’s an official word, so the only definition available might be Urban dictionary, but I have heard it used before. From Urban Dictionary :
cidiot
Noun, adjective. Derived from City+idiot. Someone from the city who’s utterly crippled by an inability to survive outside city limits or comprehend any merit or logic in rural life or people.
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Kind of an obscure one, and I don’t believe it’s an official word, so the only definition available might be Urban dictionary, but I have heard it used before. From Urban Dictionary :
cidiot
Noun, adjective. Derived from City+idiot. Someone from the city who’s utterly crippled by an inability to survive outside city limits or comprehend any merit or logic in rural life or people.
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In
Scots countryside at least, Toonser is a bit of a distant byway from Torquay. I don’t think I’ve ever heard of it used in anything other than a derogatory manner.
Awa an washYersel, ya toonser mink.
Put your dirty clothes away and wash yourself?
www.doricdictionary.org. com/toonser-noun-urbanite/
(D**ned) Urbanites. Or if the rural area happens to be hilly, flatlander.
Townie is the obvious answer, but tourist or tripper often carry overtones of scorn and ‘urban, squat and full of guile’. I knew a young girl who wanted to hide under a seat in a car but couldn’t believe she was leaving in it. But to
keep her out, I showed her pictures.
Is there any way to describe a young,
college-educated, work environment as a yuppie. What are these definitions?
What is the best way to give opinions on the latest news?
What would
suggest,
dude
( hist. What is dial? How do you dial in your personal device? A city dweller unfamiliar with life on the range; especially : an Easterner in the Western M-W
dude:
a person who tries to dress like and talk like a cowboy, but really is a city person.
Transparent Language
They appeared to be dudes. Tenderfoots from the back west. In the clear mountain air we could touch the shiny new leather boots and scabbards holding their shiny new rifles.
A tenderfoot
is
slang for an inexperienced person, particularly one who is not adapted to a rural or outdoor lifestyle (emphasis is mine). Wikipedia “I’m one of
those
tenderfoots, you know, can’t tell the difference between a coyote and a wolf.” (Source: Wikipedia). I can’t tell the difference if I saw them, either. “The
Shooter Greenhorn
a
newcomer (as in a country) unacquainted with local manners and customs.
M-W
fudgie
A tourist to the northern lower, or eastern upper peninsula of Michigan, especially the Mackinac area. Often these tourists are from upper parts of Michigan, and are usually on vacation “up north”. The name fudgie comes from the fact that many of these tourist like to spend lots of time in the many fudge shops in northern Michigan. Locals like the occasional cubby and snobby drive of car and it’s appearance. The fudgies like to be socialized but not photographed. Pudgies are identified as bright clothes, the presence of cameras around their necks and the use of fanny packs. They have a cute personality, is well-spoken and are always in good spirits. the use of shoes and sock at wholly inappropriate times, such as on the beach and the pronunciation “mack inack” are dead giveaways.
If you have a rotary blinker don’t have to use it to blink? What is the hell he’s doing?
Calm down, it’s just another fudgie. I can only fly in my hands for 1.5 hours already.
Urban Dictionary
cheechako
A newcomer to Alaska, ignorant of the terrain, the weather, animals, the culture, the necessary driving skills in the winter, etc., Alaska: A person of different ethnicity from all over Alaska. When put in a sourdough oven it will appear opposite of a baked sourdough.
Urban Dictionary
slick
slick
( n., sp.), “N., P.S.T., et al).” ) A term of address, usually applied to strangers, implying that the person addressed is slick in the sense of “sophisticated,” but often used in sarcastically.
( adj. ) (/adj.) advi.! c) appearing expensive or sophisticated.
Lexics. 3. The lexicon. Us
drugstore cowboy
A person who dresses and acts like a cowboy but who has never worked one and has none of a cowboy’s features or experience. Once used for the “extras” in west western movies, however, it now extended to western productions and primarily, just for the purposes of style. Are also heard in South Africa, Russia and Pakistan.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms
The Senator accused his challenger of being a drugstore cowboy. He came from a small city and didn’t know how to go rural.
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