steepy
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- steepie (obsolete)
Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈstiːpi/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -iːpi
Adjective
[edit]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.