towny

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.37 in modern English

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noun

adj

"The cousin might get the farm at Elias's death; but there was no telling. Elias didn't like him. He and his family were too towny for Elias. There was a danger that Elias might put the farm up for public auction, and live his latter days on the price."

From town + -y (“person associated”).

townies (plural) townier (comparative) towniest (superlative)

towniness

small-towny

small-towny townish townlike

townie

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