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townee

townee

1 9.8
A person who lives in a town and seems out of place in the country
  • noun
  • /ˈtaʊni/
  • Offensive
translation icon : [arcaico, ofensivo] persona de la ciudad

Examples

  • You're not welcome here, townee.

    Alpha Girls (2013)

  • You're not welcome here, townee.

    Alpha Girls (2013)

  • Townee.

    Alpha Girls (2013)

  • The local farmers often complain that the townee has no appreciation for their way of life.

  • His flashy clothes and loud manners made everyone label him a townee.

  • As a townee, he found rural life quite different from his bustling city routine.

Synonyms

towner
vstownee
17 8.6

A person who lives in a town or city rather than in the countryside

is mainly about a local person with flashy unsympathetic rural views
city boy
vstownee
15 4.5

A man or boy who lives in a city and often dresses in smart clothes

is a local person who is flashy rather than gently fashionable
townie
vstownee
  • Informal
13 8.9

A person who lives in a town, not a student or visitor

is a local person often flashy and unsympathetic to rural life
city slicker
vstownee
  • Informal
6 6.7

A person from a city who seems well dressed and not used to country life

is a local person who is flashy yet tied to a smaller community
urbanite
vstownee
5 4.1

A person who lives in a city and is used to city life

is specifically about a local person from a smaller community
urban dweller
vstownee
2 3.8

A person who lives in a city rather than in the countryside

refers instead to someone from a smaller local community, often flashy
townsman
vstownee
1 4.8

A man who lives in a town or city

is used for someone flashy and not friendly to countryside life
urbanist
vstownee
1 5.8

A person who lives in a city and prefers city life

expresses a local resident from a smaller community with flashy traits

How Urban

urbanite
5 4.1
townee
  • Offensive
1 9.8
townie
  • Informal
13 8.9
ruralist
7.7

Surface Forms

townee singular
townees plural

Morphology

townee = town (transparent) = town + ee

The meaning 'person from a town' follows directly from 'town' + the productive agent/participant suffix '-ee', which most learners can interpret from similar examples (e.g., 'employee').

Etymology

Townee comes from town plus the ending -ee, which marks a person connected to something, just like in employee or refugee. So a townee is someone 'of the town' and the word is often used by country people for a city visitor who seems flashy or out of place.