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Meddy vs Eddy - What's the difference?

meddy | eddy |

As a noun meddy

is a large, gently spinning region of warm water that carries saline water from the mouth of the mediterranean into the atlantic.

As a proper noun eddy is

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

meddy

English

Noun

(meddies)
  • A large, gently spinning region of warm water that carries saline water from the mouth of the Mediterranean into the Atlantic
  • References

    * origin of meddies * the double irony of the meddy

    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.

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