Meaning & use
Mountainy
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Relating to or characteristic of mountains; hilly or upland, especially in Irish English usage.
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The farmer kept a hardy breed of mountainy sheep on the upper slopes.
They drove through mountainy country where the roads twisted sharply at every turn.
A note on using this word
'Mountainy' is chiefly used in Irish and Scottish English, where it often modifies farming or livestock terms like 'mountainy sheep.'
Words with a similar meaning
mountainoushilly
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Words with an opposite meaning
flatlowland
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