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Eddy vs Leddy - What's the difference?

eddy | leddy |

As a proper noun eddy

is a diminutive of edward, edgar, edwin, or other male given names beginning with ed-.

As a noun leddy is

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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

    * (l) ----

    leddy

    English

    Noun

    (leddies)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1875, author=Various, title=Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Vol. XV., No. 85. January, 1875., chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage="What's to come o' my leddy ?" }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1906, author=Henry Wallace Phillips, title=Mr. Scraggs, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage="'Well,' she says, calmin' down, 'is there e'er an Oirish leddy in the lot?' }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1912, author=J.M. Barrie, title=Tommy and Grizel, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage="You are a leddy' now, Elspeth," Aaron said, husky with pride, "and you have a ' leddy' s room." }}