Jackeen

n.

Heard in Dublin, Kilkenny, Mayo, Waterford, Galway and Carlow

A term for a Dubliner, often used with irony by Dubliners themselves.

In use

I'd rather be a jackeen that a culchie

Posh English

I should vastly prefer to be a Dubliner than a rustic countryman.

Same phrase, other counties

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