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Townie

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1825, OED Evaluation: Originally Australian

An inhabitant of a town or other urban area, esp. as opposed to the countryside; a town dweller.

ExampleMeaning
Speaker: Yeah, yeah its like I think its funny, I don't know where- I don't know where it comes from. And there's just- even certain things that I'm trying to think of- like things that people in North-Bay- like one of the things is like "townies". Like if you're from North-Bay and you go to Nipissing they call you a townie. And then- but there's so many other variations of townie, 'cause there's like townie-bikes right, is like- like that's not like- isn't that like a type of like bike like it's a bike model. <1> Oh. <012> Like it's not even a company, like its like a bi-- its like a di-- like it's like a mountain bike or whatever. It's like a townie bike. And there's all these different kind-of- but yeah that's one like everyo-- and like when you go- when I was down in Toronto or Ottawa at conferences and I would say "Oh, like I'm a townie." Like they don't- like if you're from Toronto and go to school at U-of-T, like they don't call you a townie, as far as I know.
An inhabitant of a town or other urban area, esp. as opposed to the countryside; a town dweller.
ExampleMeaning
When you were doing b-- when you were- when you got there by bus, you c-- you came home by bus and the buses left pretty much right after classes finished. So there were very- there was very little extracurricular. That was for the- the townies which we- a term we didn't know then but um- yeah, if you were from Lindsay or Fenelon-Falls, you- you- you participated in more sports but ah for the bus people, unless you had parents who would come and get you and I didn't and most people around here didn't.
An inhabitant of a town or other urban area, esp. as opposed to the countryside; a town dweller.
ExampleMeaning
When my father was growing up the Glen-Tay would take on the Christie lake boys, and the to-- the townies from Perth
An inhabitant of a town or other urban area, esp. as opposed to the countryside; a town dweller.