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Webster 1913 Edition

(-y̆)

Adj.

Steep; precipitous.

[Poetic]

No more, my goats, shall I behold you climb
The

steepy

cliffs, or crop the flow’ry thyme.

Dryden.

Adj.

Having a steep or precipitous declivity; as steepy crags; a poetical word.

No more, my goats, shall I behold you climb the steepy cliffs.

steepy ‎(comparative steepier, superlative steepiest)

(obsolete) Steep.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: 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