steepy

English

Alternative forms

steepie (obsolete)

Etymology

steep +‎ -y

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -iːpi

Adjective

steepy (comparative steepier, superlative steepiest)

(obsolete) Steep.
- 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, The Essayes, […], printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
  , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.137:
  it was such a steepie downe-fall, and by meere strength hewen out of the maine rocke […].
- Dryden
  the steepy crown of the bare mountains

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