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English
Etymology
From steep + -y.
Pronunciation
Adjective
steepy (comparative steepier, superlative steepiest)
- (obsolete) Steep.
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.