mountainy

American  

[moun-tn-ee] / ˈmaʊn tn i /

adjective

1. having mountains; mountainous.

2. pertaining to or living in the mountains.

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Etymology

Origin of mountainy

First recorded in 1605–15; mountain + -y ¹

Example Sentences

In 1962, Sylvia Plath wrote these lines: “I am a mountain now, among mountainy women / The doctors move among us as if our bigness / Frightened the mind.”

From The Guardian • Jul. 31, 2018

Miramon Lluagor, who was Manuel's Seneschal of Gontaron, retires to Vraidex, his mountainy magic-seat, and is temporarily rid of his talkative wife, Gisele, by wishing her into the middle of the next week.

From Time Magazine Archive

Festus Clasby was the planet around which this constellation of small farmers, herds, and hardy little dark mountainy men revolved; from his shop they drew the light and heat and food which kept them going.

From Waysiders by O'Kelly, Seumas

I am the mountainy singer— The voice of the peasant's dream, The cry of the wind on the wooded hill, The leap of the fish in the stream.

From Modern British Poetry by Untermeyer, Louis

One side of the River is hemm'd in with mountainy Ground, the other side proving as rich a Soil to the Eye of a knowing Person with us, as any this Western World can afford.

From A New Voyage to Carolina, containing the exact description and natural history of that country; together with the present state thereof; and a journal of a thousand miles, travel'd thro' several nations of Indians; giving a particular account of their customs, manners, etc. by Lawson, John