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  • adjective Somewhat steep.

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  • adjective Somewhat steep

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  • adjective somewhat steep

Etymologies

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steep +‎ -ish

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Examples

  • But my street has houses on one side and a steepish hill down to a creek on teh other.

    u can’t - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2010

  • Route past the den of iniquity and vice AKA the "racino" or slot-machine parlor, thence to the airport, up a steepish hill, and back homewards.

    Bye-bye jhetley 2008

  • Then you need to go above the highway, be prepared for a steepish not probaly flat lot, steps etc. and .. depending on the area paying some bucks!

    Ajijic neighborhoods 2005

  • We're sort of on the top of a steepish hill, so most households mow near the top, and let the sides go wild.

    Adventures in Lawn Care Bardiac 2007

  • It feels fairly hardcore what with starting off in a steepish cycle ride up Morrell Avenue and then on, getting second wind, past the various hospitals such as the Churchill and the Nuffield, across the crossroads which takes you over the ringroad and then oh my let's walk the bikes from here due to steepness.

    Ooh, very nice weekend, but did I say relaxing? jinty 2007

  • We're sort of on the top of a steepish hill, so most households mow near the top, and let the sides go wild.

    Archive 2007-08-01 Bardiac 2007

  • Went across to the airport and back, and even the steepish climb out of our downtown valley didn't make me want to take off my fuzzy Polartec jacket.

    Sunday roadkill report, with added marching morons jhetley 2007

  • After a bit, I found myself going up a steepish sort of slope.

    Twelve Stories and a Dream, by H. G. Wells Herbert George 2006

  • I decided to head across to the airport and back, a local ride that _shouldn't_ get me into too much traffic and which includes some steepish hills.

    Contemplating the tattered remnants of Ernesto jhetley 2006

  • At a pace which forced me to run hard, we climbed a steepish slope, till ahead of us we saw the bald green crown of the meadowlands.

    Prester John 2005

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