mountain mann.
/ˈmaʊntᵻn ˌman/, U.S. /ˈmaʊnt(ə)n ˌmæn/ 1.
a. A man who is native to or lives in a mountainous region; (U.S.) a hillbilly. Now chiefly U.S.
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the world > food and drink > farming > farmer > [noun] > rustic or peasant
tillman940
churla1000
ploughman1223
bondmanc1250
bondc1275
ploughswain1296
countrymanc1300
boundec1320
Hobc1325
charla1400
landmana1400
Jack (John) Upland1402
carlc1405
bowerc1430
peasanta1450
rurala1475
agrest1480
bergier1480
carlleina1500
rustical?1532
ploughboy1544
boor1548
rusticc1550
kern1556
tillsman1561
clown1563
Jocka1568
Jock upalanda1568
John Uponlanda1568
russet coat1568
rustican1570
hind?1577
swain1579
Corydon1581
mountain man1587
Phillis1589
sylvan1589
russeting1597
Joan1598
stubble boy1598
paysan1609
carlota1616
swainling1615
raiyat1625
contadino1630
under-swaina1644
high shoe1647
boorinn1649
Bonhomme1660
high-shoon-man1664
countrywoman1679
villan1685
russet gown1694
ruralist1739
paysanne1748
bauer1799
bonderman1804
bodach1830
contadina1835
agrestian1837
peasantess1841
country jake1845
rufus1846
bonder1848
hayseed1851
bucolic1862
agricole1882
country jay1888
child (son, etc.) of the soil1891
hillbilly1900
palouser1903
kisan1935
woop woop1936
swede-basher1943
1587 T. Churchyard Worthines of Wales sig. Mv The Mountayne men, liue longer many a yeere, Then those in Uale, in playne or marrish soyle.
1603 R. Johnson tr. G. Botero Hist. Descr. Worlde 7 The mountaine men cannot liue any long time without..trafficke with the men of the plaine countrey.
1619 A. Gardyne Lyf William Elphinstoun 35 in Theatre Sc. Worthies (1878) He dantoun'd hes his montane men.
1781 Calendar Virginia State Papers (1875) I. 494 A late pressing application of General Greene for the aid of the Mountain Men.
1856 D. D. Owen Geol. Surv. Kentucky I. i. 100 We even hear the inhabitants of this part of Kentucky frequently styled ‘Blue Grass Men’, in contradistinction to the ‘Mountain Men’, residents of the adjacent hilly and mountainous country.
1917 H. T. Comstock Man thou Gavest 117 A mountain man might still love his woman even if he beat her.
1979 United States 1980–1 (Penguin Travel Guides) 621 The days before telephones, when each mountain man had his own holler.
1990 J. Farrow & S. Farrow Madeira: Compl. Guide (BNC) (ed. 2) 78 On New Year's Eve people in long evening dresses or in dinner jackets mingle in the streets of Funchal side by side with ‘mountain men’ in their woollen hats who have come to Funchal with their wives and children in the family's lorry.
b. U.S. A backwoodsman, a trapper; a pioneer. Also figurative.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant according to environment > country dweller > [noun]
countrymanc1300
landmana1400
Jack (John) Upland1402
rurala1475
rustical?1532
rusticc1550
Jock upalanda1568
John Uponlanda1568
rustican1570
countrywoman1679
country cousin1692
ruralist1739
country mouse1750
backwoodsman1774
back-countryman1796
mountaineer1837
ruralite1841
mountain man1847
smock-frock1858
way back1890
woop woop1936
swamp Yankee1941
1847 G. F. Ruxton Adventures Mexico & Rocky Mts. xxv. 221 The depreciation in the value of beaver-skins has thrown the great body of trappers out of employment, and there is a general tendency among the mountain-men to settle in the fruitful valleys of the Rocky Mountains.
1851 M. Reid Scalp Hunters I. xx. 261 These were the trappers, the prairie hunters, the mountain men.
1890 Overland Monthly 16 247/2 In 1833 he sent Joseph Walker to California with a large body of trappers, one of whom was the celebrated Kit Carson,..who, with other mountain men familiar with the entire country, showed Frémont the much traveled trails he discovered.
1910 C. H. J. Douglas in F. Parkman Oregon Trail 338 Mountainmen, a well-defined class of backwoodsmen,..versed in everything pertaining to life upon the plains and in the mountains.
1947 True Nov. 90/2 The wolfer's outfit was as simple as the original mountain man's.
1973 Sci. Amer. Aug. 113/1 Professor Luria is an authentic pioneer of molecular biology. Even before the first wagon train set out he ventured as a mountain man among bacterial viruses.
1992 B. Sterling Hacker Crackdown 54 Hackers long for recognition as a praiseworthy cultural archetype, the postmodern electronic equivalent of the cowboy and mountain man.
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society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > Presbyterianism > Presbyterian sects and groups > [noun] > Cameronian
Cameronian1690
mountain man1690
mountaineer1719
non-hearer1807
1690 A. Shields Short Memorial Sufferings & Grievances Presbyterians Scotl. 25 The greatest employment, that that great Army had in hand and heart, was to wreck..all their fury..upon the poor Mountain-Men as they called us.
1691 J. Howie in Coll. Dying Testimonies (1806) 19 I testify against those that were called ‘Mountain-men’.
1737 J. Porter Visions, Discov., Warnings 5 I will bring a small army with a few Ministers of the principles of the mountain men, some-time ago nicknamed Whigs.
1807 J. Hogg Mountain Bard 70 It is well known, that many of the Mountain-men wanted only a hair to make a tether of.
1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Mountain-men,..2. This distinctive name is still given to those Presbyterians in this country, who do not acknowledge the lawfulness of the present civil government; as adhering to the principles of those who disowned the authority of Charles II. and James.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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