Meddy vs Eddy - What's the difference?
meddy | eddy |
A large, gently spinning region of warm water that carries saline water from the mouth of the Mediterranean into the Atlantic
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 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)References
*origin of meddies*
the double irony of the meddy
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.