1. Having an edge or edges; sharp, cutting.
1775. C. Davy, Bourrit’s Glac. Savoy (1776), 99. Constantly walking over broken rocks, either ragged, or cleft, or edgy.
1820. L. Hunt, Indicator, No. 15 (1822), I. 118. Lastly, think of the razor itself … how cold, how edgy, how hard!
1849. Ruskin, Sev. Lamps, iii. § 11. 75. Anon binding the dusty remnants and edgy splinters into springing vaults and swelling domes.
2. Of a painting: Having the outlines too hard.
1825. Blackw. Mag., XVII. 438. There were two Holbeins, fiat, shadowless, edgy compositions.
1868. Illust. Lond. News, 11 April, 362. Less edgy and more softly sweet in colour than previous works.
3. fig. Full of edge or keenness; eager. dial.
1858. A. B. Evans, Leicestersh. Wds., Edgy, eager. ‘He’s very edgy to go there’: also ‘pert’ and ‘forward.’
