Edgy vs Eddy - What's the difference?
edgy | eddy |
nervous, apprehensive
(entertainment/advertising jargon): creatively challenging; cutting edge; leading edge
(entertainment/advertising jargon) : on the edge between acceptable and offensive; pushing the boundaries of good taste; dodgy
(dated) irritable
(art) Having some of the forms, such as drapery or the like, too sharply defined.
* Hazlitt
(of a knife or blade) sharp.
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
As an adjective edgy
is nervous, apprehensive.As a noun eddy is
a current of air or water running back, or in an opposite direction to the main current.As a verb eddy is
to form an eddy; to move in, or as if in, an eddy; to move in a circle.As a proper noun Eddy is
a diminutive of Edward, Edgar, Edwin, or other male given names beginning with Ed-.edgy
English
Adjective
(er)- an edgy temper
- An edgy style of sculpture.
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.