mountainy

[ moun-tn-ee ]

adjective

1. having mountains; mountainous.
2. pertaining to or living in the mountains.

Word History and Origins

Origin of mountainy¹

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

Example Sentences

Perhaps in the evening a band of wild mountainy Kurds would blow in and run off some of their few remaining sheep.

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And barring a mountainy man or woman, and they cutting turf, you'd meet nothing unless it were the sheep.

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It is little they are worth altogether; those mountainy boys do be poor.

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I went to the drill a few nights, and I skinning kids for the mountainy men.

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

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