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单词 townie
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townien.

Brit. /ˈtaʊni/, U.S. /ˈtaʊni/
Forms: 1800s towny, 1800s– towney, 1800s– townie, 1900s– toonie (Scottish), 1900s– toony (Irish English (northern)), 1900s– tounie (Scottish).
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: town n., -y suffix6.
Etymology: < town n. + -y suffix6.
1. A person from one's own town; an inhabitant of the same town.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant according to environment > town- or city-dweller > [noun] > fellow townsman
concitizen1428
co-citizen1488
comburgess1517
fellow citizen1550
townsman1562
conscive1578
town's bairn?1591
comburgher1605
townsfolk1614
townschild1621
city mana1661
townsboy1699
town folk1805
townie1824
townsfellow1830
homeboy1861
homie1929
homes1971
1824 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 312/2 Tell me seriously now, han't you heard all about my poor towny, Jackey Crockfort?
1834 Knickerbocker 4 279 Five or six fellows, whom I knew were friends and ‘townies’ of his.
1869 Routledge's Every Boy's Ann. 347 Then you and me's ‘towneys’ it seems.
1918 Chambers's Jrnl. Jan. 10/2 We're townies, ain't we?
2005 D. Diss Dizzy xx. 201 Geoff Race, as a townie of mine, travelled up and down the line with me.
2. Originally Australian. An inhabitant of a town or other urban area, esp. as opposed to the countryside; a town dweller. In early use also: a recent immigrant to Australia; spec. a Londoner. Cf. townee n. 2.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant according to environment > town- or city-dweller > [noun]
borough-manc1000
city mana1400
townsman1433
town manc1475
town dweller1484
oppidan?1548
burgher?1555
townsfolk1562
townsfolk1592
townswoman1612
town liver1620
town folk1679
citess1685
citizeness1754
citizette1798
townie1825
urban1835
townskip1837
townsperson1840
urbanite1892
burgheress1901
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant according to environment > town- or city-dweller > [noun] > as opposed to country
citizen?1518
cockney1564
cit1633
townling1738
townie1825
town mouse1835
townsperson1840
townee1899
1825 Austral. (Sydney) 29 Sept. 3 A pulley hauley match between two ladies of the fancy; the one a towny, the other of currency worth.
1827 P. Cunningham Two Years New S. Wales II. xxix. 245 The English convicts divide themselves into the two great classes of townies and yokels.
1873 A. B. Dawbin Memories of Past 105 Our horses were undergoing an inspection from the ‘townies’, who considered us very courageous people to have trusted ourselves on such skeletons.
1934 Bulletin (Sydney) 19 Dec. 20/1 The sweet test of a bushie! He looks round for a rail to lean his elbows on, while the townie negligently leans up against a post.
1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren iv. 62 The ‘towney’ touches the leaf gingerly.
1972 P. Lively Driftway vi. 85 He was a real townie, didn't care for walking at all.
2011 Daily Tel. 20 July 23/4 Townies should realise that the countryside is a working environment too.
3. An inhabitant of a university town as distinguished from a member of the university itself. Chiefly U.S. in early use. Cf. townee n. 1, town n. 9.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant according to environment > town- or city-dweller > [noun] > as opposed to university
townsman1570
oppidana1696
snobc1796
snobbitec1796
townie1843
mucker1874
townee1888
1843 G. Soane Last Ball I. 137 Drubbing the townies, bullying the proctor, and cocking his cap at the vice-chancellor himself.
1852 Deseret News (Great Salt Lake City, Utah Territory) 7 Aug. 1/1 ‘O, nothing,’ replied the ‘towney’.
1853 Yale Literary Mag. 19 2 The genus by the German students denominated ‘Philistines’, by the Cantabs ignominiously called ‘Snobs’, and which custom here has named ‘Townies’.
1920 Granite Monthly May 208/1 He collected a posse of two professors, five students, and ten ‘townies’.
1977 Time 27 June 43/1 The ‘townies’ in Cambridge had objected to the original site near the Harvard campus.
2004 C. Donald Rude Kids (2005) ii. 30 If townies like us wanted to get into either the University or the Polytechnic to see a band we had to..beg passing students to sign us in.
4. North American. A town dweller as distinguished from a person travelling with a circus or carnival. Cf. carny n.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant according to environment > town- or city-dweller > [noun] > as opposed to circus or carnival
townie1937
1937 Literary Digest 3 Apr. 21/3 Child labor laws..have forced children [of circus people] into schools for a certain number of months a year. This contact with ‘rubes’ and ‘townies’ has given rise to new interests.
1951 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 8 Apr. 7/5 A fight [of carnival workers] with the townies.
1971 Islander (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 19 Dec. 6/4 Everything had been set up for the show and tickets were being sold when several ‘townies’ attempted to crash the gate.
2008 H. Leon Amer. Dream ii. 51 The closed carnival feels like something out of Mad Max; the townies have left, and it's carnies only!
5. British slang (depreciative). A (young) person of a type particularly associated with city or town centres, typically characterized by brash or aggressively loud behaviour, a tendency to gather or move around in large groups, and unthinking conformity to what is currently fashionable.In quot. 1994 with reference to a demographic survey by an advertising agency.
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1994 Evening Standard 23 June 20/2 The Working-Class Diehards..rule places like Basildon, Tilbury and Morden, while the Disgruntled Townies (‘bulldog estates’ or ‘multi-ethnic terraces’) are common in areas like Gillingham and Chatham.]
1995 Independent (Nexis) 31 July (Going Out section) 20 Home of numerous streetwalkers, crusties and on Saturday night, ‘townies’—the white socks and stilettos brigade who escape from the depths of Nottinghamshire.
1995 J. Cocker in New Musical Express 1/5 Misfits..are quite isolated, hanging around libraries. Their natural enemies are townies who hang around in packs and wear short-sleeved white shirts.
1998 Edinb. Student 12 Nov. 6/2 Townies—not unlike the Essex ‘Gazboy’ and ‘Sharon’.
2008 J. King Skinheads 62 Kev the Kev says he's a townie, a chav, with his Ben Sherman and Harrington jacket, the one with the Fred Perry logo.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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