towny
adjEtymology From town + -y (adjectival suffix).
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Characteristic of a town.
- 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.1947, Lynn Doyle, Green oranges, page 87:
- Derived terms
- towniness
- Related terms
- small-towny, townish, townlike