steepy
English
Alternative forms
- steepie (obsolete)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈstiːpi/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -iːpi
Adjective
steepy (comparative steepier, superlative steepiest)
- (obsolete) Steep.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, The Essayes […], London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
- it was such a steepie downe-fall, and by meere strength hewen out of the maine rocke [...]
- 1697, Virgil, “The Sixth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 370, lines 267–268:
- Huge Trunks of Trees, fell'd from the ſteepy Crown / Of the bare Mountains, rowl with Ruin down.
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