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Mounty

Mounty is the dated form of Mountie.

Meaning of Mountie

Noun

Mountie (plural Mounties)

  1. (Canada, informal) A member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
    • As Jo-Anne was only 10 years old and a strange man had issued an ultimatum to her mother, the Chilliwack RCMP bypassed the routine intake protocols and upgraded the case to a child abduction investigation. Mounties immediately set up roadblocks at the major intersections leaving Chilliwack, at the...2026 July 25, Nicholas Muhoro, “The Last Call of Jo-Anne Pedersen, the Girl Who Vanished From a Payphone”, in Skip Boring, archived from the original on 26 Jul 2026
  2. (Canada, historical, informal) A member of the North West Mounted Police
  3. (US, informal) A law officer, particularly one patrolling rural highways.

Forms of Mounty

pluralMounties

Questions about Mounty

What is Mounty the dated form of?
Mounty is the dated form of Mountie.

Words near Mounty in the dictionary

  1. Mountsorrel
  2. mounture
  3. mountures
  4. mountweazel
  5. mountweazels
  6. Mounty
  7. Mountz
  8. mountza
  9. mountzas
  10. Mountzes
  11. moupinamide

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