Townee (Noun)
Meaning
Townsman unacquainted with country life especially a slick and flashy male city dweller.
Classification
Nouns denoting people.
Examples
- The farmer viewed the townee who had just moved into the nearby farmhouse with suspicion, thinking him soft and inexperienced.
- He was a townee through and through, always dressed in the latest fashions and never getting his hands dirty.
- The rural community was wary of outsiders, especially townees who came in with their city ways and disrupted the local customs.
- After growing up in the city, Jack was a total townee and struggled to adapt to the slow pace of life in the countryside.
- The locals would often mock the townee who would drive into town in his fancy sports car, flaunting his wealth and ignorance of rural life.