townie

noun townies · townee

1. UK, US A person living in a university area who is not associated with the university. Professional gamblers have a cushy racket in college football because old grads and even townies of college localities are sentimental bettors and easy to separate from their money.
2. UK A person who has moved from a town or city to a rural area. Especially, one who is perceived not to have adopted rural ways. [Hamlet] was only repeating the phrase of an ordinary English rustic when jeering at a “townie”—whom he suspected of being a gutter-snipe—that “He don’t know a hawk from a hernshaw”.
3. UK A person familiar with the town (urbanised centre of a city) and with going out on the town; a street-wise person.
4. UK, derogatory A chav.

   Similar: synonyms at chav

5. US A working-class citizen in a metropolitan area.
6. Australia, New Zealand, UK, informal A person who lives in a city or town, or has an urban outlook. Bobby Wick stormed through the tents of his Company, rallying, rebuking, mildly, as is consistent with the Regulations, chaffing the faint-hearted [...] comforting the panic-stricken with rude speech, and more than once tending the dying who had no friends — the men without "townies"[.]
7. Australia, Lewis, New Zealand, UK, informal A person from Stornoway.

   Opposite: maw

Opposite: cocky ()

noun townies

1. diminutive, informal, rare Diminutive of town; synonym of small town. [W]e came within a Mile o’ Godlamin, a little Townie upo’ the Rod, […]

   Similar: townlet

noun Townies

1. A person from Charlestown, Massachusetts, (especially) a working-class person of Irish American heritage. Racial isolation is so strong that in the early 1970s there were only 388 blacks among the 38,488 residents of South Boston, and only 76 among the 15,353 “Townies” of Charlestown.