townie

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town·ie /ˈtaʊni/ noun [countable] informal  SSLIVE SOMEWHEREsomeone who lives in a town or city and does not know anything about life in the countryside 〔对乡村生活一无所知的〕城里人

Examples from the Corpus

townie• Billy the Kid worked as a cowboy, but he was more a townie than a frontiersman.• Not surprisingly, townies tell pollsters they wish they lived there, too.• But Ilkley Moor, however exhilarating for us townies, forms only the nursery slopes of the Yorkshire Dales.• Or maybe you townies don't know.

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townie
town‧ie /ˈtaʊni/ noun [countable] informal
someone who lives in a town or city and does not know anything about life in the countryside

townieBrE /ˈtaʊni/ 🔊NAmE /ˈtaʊni/ 🔊 noun (disapproving) (also townee) a person who lives in or comes from a town or city, especially sb who does not know much about life in the countryside （尤指不了解乡村生活的）城里人(NAmE) a person who lives in a town with a college or university but does not attend or work at it （大学城中不上大学或不在大学工作的）居民，老百姓(BrE, informal) a member of a group of young people who live in a town, all wear similar clothes, such as tracksuits and caps, and often behave badly 阿飞，城市小流氓（穿着类似，行为不端）