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Surfy vs Surgy - What's the difference?

surfy | surgy |

As adjectives the difference between surfy and surgy

is that surfy is of a shore, having lots of breaking waves while surgy is rising in surges or billows; full of surges; resembling surges in motion or appearance; swelling.

surfy

English

Adjective

(er)
  • of a shore, having lots of breaking waves
  • *{{quote-book, year=1904, author=William Morris, title=The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=Now again in the latter summer do those Kings of the Niblungs ride To chase the sons of the plunder that curse the ocean-side: So over the oaken rollers they run the cutters down Till fair in the first of the deep are the glittering bows up-thrown; But, shining wet and steel-clad, men leap from the surfy shore, And hang their shields on the gunwale, and cast abroad the oar; Then full to the outer ocean swing round the golden beaks, And Sigurd sits by the tiller and the host of the spoilers seeks. }}
  • characteristic of surf music
  • * {{quote-news, year=1993, date=September 3, author=Chris Dickinson, title=Singers to watch, work=Chicago Reader citation
  • , passage=All this is set to a driving backdrop of hard, slightly surfy , surprisingly powerful strumming. }}
  • * {{quote-news, year=2009, date=August 30, author=Ben Ratliff, title=Chanting, Jazzy, Beachy, Funky, Lonely Sounds, work=New York Times citation
  • , passage=They do a kind of surfy version of New Order, bright and clattery, a minimalist collision of the 1950s and the 1980s. }}

    surgy

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Rising in surges or billows; full of surges; resembling surges in motion or appearance; swelling.
  • Over the surgy main. — Pope.
    (Webster 1913)