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Beachy vs Leachy - What's the difference?

beachy | leachy |

As adjectives the difference between beachy and leachy

is that beachy is pertaining to the material making up the edge of a seashore, as with pebbles, gravel, and sand while leachy is permitting liquids to pass by percolation; not capable of retaining water; porous.

beachy

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Pertaining to the material making up the edge of a seashore, as with pebbles, gravel, and sand.
  • * 1597 , Shakespeare, 2 Henry IV , .
    • ''O God! that one might read the book of fate,
    ''And see the revolution of the times
    ''Make mountains level, and the continent,
    ''Weary of solid firmness, melt itself
    ''Into the sea! and, other times, to see
    ''The beachy girdle of the ocean
    ''Too wide for Neptune's hips; how chances mock,
    ''And changes fill the cup of alteration
    With divers liquors!
  • Pertaining to a beach or something beach-like.
  • * 2004 Exporters, here's a "beachy" place to get your feet wet. It's close by, and one of the main tourist destinations in the Caribbean. — USDA site

    • leachy

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Permitting liquids to pass by percolation; not capable of retaining water; porous.
    • Gravelly and sandy soils may be leachy .
    (Webster 1913)