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eddies

eddies is the plural of eddy.

eddies is the third-person singular simple present indicative of eddy.

Meaning of eddy

Noun (1)

eddy (plural eddies)

  1. A current of air or water running back, or in an opposite direction to the main current.
    • In the bow old Dobbs fought the stream cunningly, twisting the nose into eddies and backwaters, taking advantage when he could of set of current, and when he could not, paddling doggedly, not so powerfully, perhaps, as his partner, but with equal steadiness.1922, A. M. Chisholm, A Thousand a Plate
  2. A circular current; a whirlpool.
    • And smiling eddies dimpled on the main.1667, John Dryden, Annus Mirabilis: The Year of Wonders, 1666. […], London: […] Henry Herringman, […], →OCLC, (please specify the stanza number)

Noun (2)

eddy (plural eddies or eddys)

  1. (slang) A marijuana edible.
    • I never really was into weed until recently. On my "Chrissy Chaos" podcast on Patreon, I do a segment every Friday called the "Chris and Eddy Show" 'cause I call edibles "eddys,' so I take an eddy and I do a show.2022 April 30, Chris Distefano (quoted), Angela Barbuti, “NYC comic Chris Distefano laughs off woke culture in Netflix special”, in New York Post

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Noun capitalized: Eddies

Eddies

  1. (plural) plural of Eddie

Phrases with eddies

Questions about eddies

What is eddies the plural of?
Eddies is the plural of eddy.
What part of speech is eddies?
Eddies is a noun.

Words near eddies in the dictionary

  1. eddication
  2. Eddie
  3. Eddie the Eagle rule
  4. Eddie would go
  5. eddied
  6. eddies
  7. edding
  8. Eddinger
  9. Eddingers
  10. Eddington
  11. Eddington limit

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Adapted from Wiktionary: eddies (page history and authors); Eddies (page history and authors); eddy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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