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Eddy vs Beddy - What's the difference?

eddy | beddy |

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)
  • A current of air or water running back, or in an opposite direction to the main current.
  • A circular current; a whirlpool.
  • * Dryden
  • And smiling eddies dimpled on the main.
  • * Addison
  • Wheel through the air, in circling eddies play.

    See also

    * countercurrent * dust devil

    Verb

  • To form an eddy; to move in, or as if in, an eddy; to move in a circle.
  • * Wordsworth
  • Eddying round and round they sink.

    References

    Anagrams

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    beddy

    English

    Noun

    (beddies)
  • (hypocoristic ) bed
  • * 1989 , Martin Barker, Comics: ideology, power, and the critics - Page 87
  • 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 .