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mountainy

American  
[moun-tn-ee] / ˈmaʊn tn i /

adjective

  1. having mountains; mountainous.

  2. pertaining to or living in the mountains.


Etymology

Origin of mountainy

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

Example Sentences

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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

Thur wur a sight o’ mountainy men thur, at the time, that wa’n’t the fellurs to see this child put down on the parairar for nuthin’.

From The Scalp Hunters by Stewart, F.A.

The small farmers and herds and the hardy little dark mountainy men had this reverential feeling about the good man and his shop.

From Waysiders by O'Kelly, Seumas

I am the mountainy singer, And I would sing of the Christ Who followed the paths thro’ the mountains To eat at the people’s tryst.

From The Mountainy Singer by MacCathmhaoil, Seosamh

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