mountainy

English

Etymology

From mountain +‎ -y.

Adjective

mountainy (comparative more mountainy, superlative most mountainy)

1. (now chiefly Ireland) Mountainous. [from 16th c.]
   • 1925, Ford Madox Ford, No More Parades (Parade's End), Penguin, published 2012, page 292:

     His girl, who worked on a mountainy farm above Caerphilly, had written to him about a queer cow […].

   • 2013, Molly Keane, Time After Time:

     The mountainy fields rose quietly outside it towards gorse and heather.