crachach


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crachach

(ˈkræxɑːx)
pl n
(in Wales) members of a cultural elite
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In the week - whisper it - we took the Echo, viewing the Western Mail as the paper for west Walians and Cardiff crachach.
Happy birthday Western Mail, and thank you for the many fine privileges
In the week -- whisper it -- we took the Echo, viewing the Western Mail as the paper for West Walians and Cardiff crachach.
The Western Mail's 150-year history teaches us about both Wales and journalism; As the Western Mail celebrates its 150th anniversary one of its longest-standing writers reflects on her pride at being part of its history
Here the victim is Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood, who faces a leadership challenge from the 'crachach' and Welsh media backed reactionaries who believe Leanne's socialist working class background is too much for their sedate lives in the leafy suburbia of Cardiff North and other well-heeled enclaves.
Party leaders stabbed in back; LETTERS
It seems the Welsh Assembly and crachach has very strange - one may even think absolutely ridiculous - priorities, which is a matter truly deserving of public outrage!
Wouldn't Santa speak Inuit instead of Welsh?
The elite v the people; y crachach v y werin; Wales' political masters seeking to hoover more power into their hands v the rest of the population.
SO IT'S A YES FROM ROGER
It aims to demonstrate that it isn't just politicians or the crachach who want a more powerful Assembly.
WRU chief is selected to child lead Yes team in final tie
Words containing the sequence ACHACH: CRACHACH (Chambers) defined as "Welsh people who snobbishly affect English customs, manners and speech" and MACHACHI (Webster's Geographical Dictionary) the name of a town in Ecuador
Kickshaws
What we heard from him was the foul, incestuous, self-serving voice of the Crachach, the Welsh elite.
Why this man is looking to break the heart of Wales; THE DANGER LURKING IN A DIVIDED NATION
THE other day I had cause to drive from Llandeilo to Kidwelly via Carmarthen, and along much of the way it was the route that the Tour of Britain will take in a couple of weeks' time as it leaves Pembrey and then proceeds via Kidwelly, Carmarthen, Llandeilo (or more correctly Ffairfach to those who live south of the border and the bridge in the less crachach district of town), Bethlehem, Llangadog, Llandovery -- and then on to Newport.
Western Mail letters: Friday, August 17, 2018; Your letters to the national newspaper of Wales
But despite this response from Mr Owens, and scores of less polite replies, Mr Stead remained unrepentant and wrote: "Dear Crachach types (Dafydds, Esyllts etc) please stop tweeting me with your parochial rubbish.
Fury as journalist labels Eisteddfod a 'bore-fest' Top Welsh rugby referee among those to blast social media posts trolling Welsh language
It describes the area as "all tree-lined avenues and delis, and populated by 'crachach'", explaining that it is a nickname for the Welsh elite.
Suburb named one of the hippest places to live in UK
So let's scrap Crachach TV and set up the Werin TV."
Can we still 4C a future? SUNDAYFOCUS The latest row over S4C has united fierce political rivals, triggered calls for a boycott of the BBC licence fee and sent protesters onto the streets of the capital. DAVID WILLIAMSON asks why the political temperature is high enough to shatter a thermometer
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