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mountainy

mountainy adjective: mountainous.

Adjective

mountainy (comparative more mountainy, superlative most mountainy)

  1. (Ireland) Mountainous.
    • His girl, who worked on a mountainy farm above Caerphilly, had written to him about a queer cow […].1925, Ford Madox Ford, No More Parades (Parade's End), Penguin, published 2012, page 292
    • The mountainy fields rose quietly outside it towards gorse and heather.2013, Molly Keane, Time After Time
  2. (Ireland) native to mountainous territory; rustic, backward
    • The mountainy children looked at the untidy village women with surprise and the village women looked back with that certain disdain which villagers have for poor mountainy people.1960, Edna O'Brien, The Country Girls
    • "I'm a mountainy man by breeding. If I look up and don't see a mountain, I've nothing to lean against," says actor Joe Lynch of why he has lived in Dundrum for almost 53 years.1999 October 28, Joe Lynch, quotee, “Down my way”, in The Irish Times

Forms of mountainy

comparativemore mountainy
superlativemost mountainy

Origin of mountainy

From mountain + -y.

Questions about mountainy

What does mountainy mean?
Mountainy means mountainous.
What part of speech is mountainy?
Mountainy is an adjective.

Words near mountainy in the dictionary

  1. mountaintop removal
  2. mountaintopism
  3. mountaintops
  4. mountainward
  5. mountainwards
  6. mountainy
  7. mountant
  8. mountants
  9. Mountbatten
  10. Mountbatten pink
  11. Mountbatten pinks

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