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Melvin vs Wedgie - What's the difference?

melvin | wedgie |

As nouns the difference between melvin and wedgie

is that melvin is a wedgie performed from in front of the victim while wedgie is a prank in which a person's underpants are pulled up sharply from behind in order to wedge the clothing uncomfortably between the person's buttocks.

As a proper noun Melvin

is {{surname|from=Old French}.

As a verb wedgie is

to play the wedgie prank on.

melvin

English

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • * 1824 , The Life of Andrew Melville, W. Blackwood (1824), page 416:
    • Melville always wrote his name Melvinus'' in Latin, and he is often called ''Melvin''''' in English. Hence some have concluded that '''''Melvin'' , and not ''Melville , was his proper name. But they are merely different modes of pronouncing the same family appellation.
  • transferred from the surname.
  • * 1976 , My Life on Trial: An Autobiography , Morrow, ISBN 0688030858, page 21:
    • And for some reason, they called me Pete. My mother, who probably dug up the name Melvin from some romantic novel about Englishmen drinking tea, cringed at the "Pete".
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    wedgie

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (slang) A prank in which a person's underpants are pulled up sharply from behind in order to wedge the clothing uncomfortably between the person's buttocks.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=May 27 , author=Nathan Rabin , title=TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “New Kid On The Block” (season 4, episode 8; originally aired 11/12/1992) , work=The Onion AV Club citation , page= , passage=When Laura tells Bart that she can teach him to dance, Bart and Laura are suddenly transformed into Astaire and Rogers in a black-and-white fantasy sequence before Bart’s reverie is abruptly ended when Laura reverts back to bratty tomboy form and gives him a wedgie .}}
  • wedge-tailed eagle
  • * 2003 , Susannah Farfor, David Andrew, Hugh Finlay, Northern Territory (page 27)
    • The white-bellied sea eagle is almost as big as a wedgie and handsomely marked in grey and white.

    Synonyms

    * (prank) snuggie

    Derived terms

    * atomic wedgie

    See also

    * melvin

    Verb

  • (slang) To play the wedgie prank on.
  • * 1989 , Michael Moffatt, Coming of Age in New Jersey (page 86)
    • Last year's juniors had wedgied last year's freshmen, and then each freshman victim had happily joined the patrol, its aficionados claimed.