carrot cruncher

English

Alternative forms

• carrot-cruncher

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Noun

carrot cruncher (plural carrot crunchers)

1. (chiefly UK, slang, derogatory) Someone from a rural background; a bumpkin.
   • 1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, page 130:

     [H]e called Bill a turnip-headed old carrot-cruncher, and other insulting names.

   • 2006, Will Self, The Book of Dave:

     Symun Devush, the carrot-cruncher, the hick from the sticks, who, when he'd arrived at the gaol, had no more conception of the city he found himself in than a worm does of the apple ...

   • 2008, Sally Worboyes, Handbags And Gladrags:

     'Me having an up to date style even though I've turned into a carrot cruncher. A country bumpkin.' Nathan giggled. 'Country bumpkin? I don't think so.'

   • 2010, Cameron Addicott, The Interceptor:

     At least I come from a part of the world that has got a football team; you're a friggn'^[sic] carrot cruncher and you support the bloody scally's^[sic].

2. (UK, slang) Such a police officer