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mountainy en · ADJ

Etymology

From mountain + -y.

Meanings

1. (Ireland) Mountainous.
   • The mountainy fields rose quietly outside it towards gorse and heather. 2013, Molly Keane, Time After Time:
   • 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:
2. (Ireland) native to mountainous territory; rustic, backward
   • "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:
   • 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:

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