Judge vs Judgy - What's the difference?
judge | judgy |
(senseid)A public official whose duty it is to administer the law, especially by presiding over trials and rendering judgments; a justice.
* Francis Bacon
A person who decides the fate of someone or something that has been called into question.
A person officiating at a sports or similar event.
A person whose opinion on a subject is respected.
* Dryden
To sit in judgment on; to pass sentence on.
To sit in judgment, to act as judge.
To form an opinion on.
To arbitrate; to pass opinion on something, especially to settle a dispute etc.
To have as an opinion; to consider, suppose.
To form an opinion; to infer.
* 1884 : (Mark Twain), (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn), Chapter VIII
(intransitive) To criticize or label another person or thing.
(informal) Inclined to make judgments; judgmental.
* 2011 , Megan McCafferty, Bumped (page 276)
* 2012 , Anne Regan, Animal Magnetism (page 126)
As a noun judge
is (public judicial official)A public official whose duty it is to administer the law, especially by presiding over trials and rendering judgments; a justice.As a verb judge
is to sit in judgment on; to pass sentence on.As a proper noun Judge
is {{surname}.As an adjective judgy is
inclined to make judgments; judgmental.judge
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Alternative forms
* judg (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- The parts of a judge in hearing are four: to direct the evidence; to moderate length, repetition, or impertinency of speech; to recapitulate, select, and collate the material points of that which hath been said; and to give the rule or sentence.
- At a boxing match the decision of the judges is final.
- He is a good judge of wine.
- A man who is no judge' of law may be a good ' judge of poetry, or eloquence, or of the merits of a painting.
Synonyms
* (one who judges or dispenses judgement) deemer, deemster * (official of the court) justice, sheriffDerived terms
* * * * * *Verb
(judg)- A higher power will judge you after you are dead.
- Justices in this country judge without appeal.
- I judge a man’s character by the cut of his suit.
- We cannot both be right: you must judge between us.
- I judge it safe to leave the house once again.
- I judge from the sky that it might rain later.
- THE sun was up so high when I waked that I judged it was after eight o'clock.
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* * *judgy
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Adjective
(er)- I can't blame her for thinking this way. Because until very recently, I had bought into it all too. “Don't get all judgy , Mel," she says.
- Riley lowered his eyebrows and crossed his arms and tried to look non-judgy even if he felt a little judgy .