edge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɛdʒ
Forms: form: edges
form: edging
form: edged
form: edged
Etymology: From Middle English egge, from Old English eċġ, from Proto-West Germanic *aggju, from Proto-Germanic *agjō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- (“sharp”).
See also Dutch egge, German Ecke, Swedish egg, Norwegian egg; also Welsh hogi (“to sharpen, hone”), Latin aciēs (“sharp”), acus (“needle”), Latvian ašs, ass (“sharp”), Ancient Greek ἀκίς (akís, “needle”), ἀκμή (akmḗ, “point”), and Persian آس (âs, “grinding stone”)).
Senses: examples: text: He edged the book across the table.
text: The muggers edged her into an alley and demanded money.
glosses: To move an object slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
examples: text: He edged away from her.
text: Carroll has been edging slowly towards full fitness after his expensive arrival from Newcastle United and his partnership with £23m Luis Suarez showed rich promise as Liverpool controlled affairs from start to finish.
ref: 2011 April 11, Phil McNulty, “Liverpool 3 - 0 Man City”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: To move slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
qualifier: usually in the form 'just edge'
glosses: To win by a small margin.
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glosses: To hit the ball with an edge of the bat, causing a fine deflection.
glosses: To trim the margin of a lawn where the grass meets the sidewalk, usually with an electric or gas-powered lawn edger.
examples: 2005, Paige Gilchrist, The Big Book of Backyard Projects: Walls, Fences, Paths, Patios, Benches, Chairs & More, Section 2: Paths and Walkways, page 181,
If you're edging with stone, brick, or another material in a lawn area, set the upper surfaces of the edging just at or not more than ½ inch above ground level so it won't be an obstacle to lawn mowers.
glosses: To furnish with an edge; to construct an edging.
examples: text: To edge her champion sword
ref: 1690, [John] Dryden, Don Sebastian, King of Portugal: […], London: […] Jo. Hindmarsh, […], →OCLC, (please specify the page number):
glosses: To furnish with an edge, as a tool or weapon; to sharpen.
examples: text: Edged rather than washed by the river Ganges, it trails for a couple of miles along the bank, scarcely distinguishable from the rubbish it deposits so freely.
ref: 1924 June 4, E[dward] M[organ] Forster, chapter I, in A Passage to India, London: Edward Arnold & Co., →OCLC, part I (Mosque), page 5:
glosses: To form a border to; to enclose, to border.
examples: text: By such reasonings, the simple were blinded, and the malicious edged.
ref: a. 1628 (date written), John Hayward, The Life, and Raigne of King Edward the Sixt, London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press, and J. Lichfield at Oxford?] for Iohn Partridge, […], published 1630, →OCLC:
glosses: To make sharp or keen; to incite; to exasperate; to goad; to urge or egg on.
examples: text: Near-synonym: goon
text: Jimmy has been edging for 6 hours straight; is his dick okay?
text: “I think of it as mine, but, yes, it's his cock I've been edging with. Do you edge?”
ref: 2011, Nicholson Baker, House of Holes, page 181:
text: His mouth was open and he was still jerking his dick. Justin knew he must have been edging by then.
ref: 2012, Ryan Field, Field of Dreams: The Very Best Stories of Ryan Field, page 44:
text: “I'm going to edge you all night long. That should take the sass out of you.”
ref: 2016, Jenna Jacob, Lured By My Master: (The Doms of Genesis, Book 6):
glosses: To intentionally stay or keep someone extremely close to the point of orgasm for a long period of time.
examples: text: When are the developers going to release the update? They've been edging us for months with all of these trailers.
text: They say no Internet is better than slow Internet, cause at least your browser doesn't edge you every time you try to load a page.
text: situationships are like getting edged romantically
ref: 2023 July 12, @northstardoll, Twitter, archived from the original on 10 Jan 2024:
text: Chat's literally EDGING ME at this point with extending the subathon what the fuck 😭😭😭
ref: 2023 September 20, @TieflingMelissa, Twitter, archived from the original on 10 Jan 2024:
text: i love when kanye edges me like this, he just keeps me wanting and begging for it.
ref: 2023 October 9, @wdnos, Twitter, archived from the original on 10 Jan 2024:
text: why do dnp feel the need to edge us with their uploading schedule? :/
ref: 2023 December 6, @flwrphil, Twitter, archived from the original on 10 Jan 2024:
text: never been edged so successfully in my life because they've GOT me hooked
ref: 2024 January 4, @henryscdiaz, Twitter, archived from the original on 10 Jan 2024:
text: You people cannot keep edging me with my follower number, it keeps getting to like 775 before falling to 769 again 😭😭
ref: 2024 January 6, @sigmachomper, Twitter, archived from the original on 10 Jan 2024:
glosses: To agitate or exasperate (someone) due to constant delays of something.