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mountainy, a. ? Now Anglo-Irish.|ˈmaʊntɪnɪ| Also 7 -any. [f. mountain + -y.] a. Having mountains or hills. b. Belonging to or dwelling in the mountains.
1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 379 To be conueied to Zalga, a strong mountainy place. 1637T. Morton New Eng. Canaan (1883) 122 The Massachusetts..is a very beautifull Land, not mountany nor inclininge to mountany. 1744A. Dobbs Hudson's Bay 140 In Lat. 44° 30′ it was mountainy, and full of Silver Mines. 1780A. Young Tour Irel. (1887) 65 Crossed an immense mountainy bog. 1825T. C. Croker Fairy Leg. (new ed.) 357 He rented a small mountainy farm. 1881Miss Laffan in Macm. Mag. XLIV. 386 The mountainy people brought down but little [butter]. |