Eddy vs Beddy - What's the difference?
eddy | beddy |
A current of air or water running back, or in an opposite direction to the main current.
A circular current; a whirlpool.
* Dryden
* Addison
To form an eddy; to move in, or as if in, an eddy; to move in a circle.
* Wordsworth
(hypocoristic ) bed
* 1989 , Martin Barker, Comics: ideology, power, and the critics - Page 87
As a proper noun eddy
is a diminutive of edward, edgar, edwin, or other male given names beginning with ed-.As a noun beddy is
(hypocoristic ) bed.eddy
English
Noun
(eddies)- And smiling eddies dimpled on the main.
- Wheel through the air, in circling eddies play.
See also
* countercurrent * dust devilVerb
- Eddying round and round they sink.
References
Anagrams
* (l) ----beddy
English
Noun
(beddies)- On to the back page, and Walter is walking the fields after school, clutching his teddy: 'I've made up another poem. Perhaps I'll be poet laureate one day!': Oh, sweet and cuddly darling Teddy, You keep me cosy in my beddy .