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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