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Steepy vs Sweepy - What's the difference?

steepy | sweepy |

As adjectives the difference between steepy and sweepy

is that steepy is (obsolete) steep while sweepy is moving with a sweeping motion.

steepy

English

Alternative forms

* steepie (obsolete)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Steep.
  • *, 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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    sweepy

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Moving with a sweeping motion.
    • The branches bend before their sweepy away. — Dryden.
    (Webster 1913)