Mountie
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- noun
- /ˈmaʊnti/
- Canadian
- The Mountie helped guide us through the snowy Canadian wilderness.
- Canadian Mountie
- Mountie hat
- Royal Canadian Mountie
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Examples
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She is being held at Mountie Headquarters in Niagara Falls, Canada.
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I know he was a Mountie.
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Yes, Dudley now has everything a Mountie could ever want.
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And right then, this Mountie comes by and says, "Looks like a Malamute to me."
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A Mountie in a scarlet coat.
Fiction book (1997) -
He was a Mountie up in Canada, don't you know?
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"A Mountie showed up at the wharf last week," Red Murdock said as he ducked down a set of narrow wooden stairs, directing Enita by the hand into the cool, sharp, fermenting smell of the cellar.
Fiction book (1997) -
Every Mountie in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police wears a distinctive red uniform.
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When I visited Canada, I saw a Mountie on patrol near the Parliament buildings.
Synonyms
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A man whose job is to keep people safe and enforce laws
Surface Forms
Morphology
Mountie = mounted + mounted police (semi-transparent) = mount + ie
The form is clearly built by adding the informal/diminutive suffix '-ie' to the idea of 'mounted' (a person on horseback), but the specific association as the national RCMP nickname is specialized and not fully predictable for all learners.
Etymology
Mountie is a short, friendly name for the mounted police, and mounted comes from mount meaning 'to get on a horse', because these officers originally rode horses. So a Mountie today is a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Canada's national police force.