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Beachy vs Peachy - What's the difference?

beachy | peachy |

As adjectives the difference between beachy and peachy

is that beachy is pertaining to the material making up the edge of a seashore, as with pebbles, gravel, and sand while peachy is resembling a peach, peach-like.

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

    • peachy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Resembling a peach, peach-like.
    • Although this is an apricot pie, it tastes peachy .
  • (slang) Very good, excellent
    • Life is peachy now summer has come.

    Derived terms

    *peachily *peachiness *peachy keen