edgy
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Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɛd͡ʒi/
Audio (General Australian): (file) - Rhymes: -ɛdʒi
- Hyphenation: edg‧y
Adjective
edgy (comparative edgier, superlative edgiest)
- Nervous, apprehensive.
- (entertainment, advertising) Creatively challenging; cutting edge; leading edge.
- (entertainment, advertising) On the edge between acceptable and offensive; pushing the boundaries of good taste; risqué.
- (dated) Irritable.
- an edgy temper
- (art) Having some of the forms, such as drapery or the like, too sharply defined.
- 1821–1822, William Hazlitt, “(please specify the essay name)”, in Table-Talk; or, Original Essays, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Warren; Henry Colburn and Co.:
- A sculptor's ideas must, I should guess, be somewhat rigid and inflexible, like the materials in which he works. Besides, Nollekens's style was comparatively hard and edgy.
- Sharp; having prominent edges.
- 1954, C. S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy:
- Shasta tried to get out of the way and to make Bree go back. But […] a woman with a very edgy basket in her hands, who was just behind Shasta, pushed the basket hard against his shoulders, and said, "Now then! Who are you shoving!"
- (slang) Cool by virtue of being tough, dark, or badass.
- 2013, Leonard Bell, Kapka Kassabova, Marti Friedlander, →ISBN:
- His cool, somewhat edgy look is directed back at the photographer, as if she was too close, perhaps had seen too much.
- 2014, S. K. Collins, Crooked G's, →ISBN, page 265:
- This former aspiring rapper-turned author brings out the heartfelt emotion in his writing from an edgy street-life perspective that leaves the reader begging for more.
- 2015, Fodor's Travel Guides, Fodor's The Carolinas & Georgia, →ISBN:
- The full bar adds to the edgy attitude of the place, which stays open until midnight on weekends.
- 2015, Mark Ribowsky, Whiskey Bottles and Brand-New Cars, →ISBN:
- The country part came in with their piquant nativist themes, an edgy, don't-fuck-with-me pose and attitude, a gnawing male chauvinism undercut by sentimentality for women, kin, and the Lord.
- 2016, C. Desir, Other Broken Things, →ISBN:
- From the author of Bleed Like Me, which Booklist called “edgy, dark, and turbulent with passion” comes another compelling and gritty novel about addiction and forbidden romance—starring a fearless, unforgettable heroine.
- (Internet slang) Exhibiting behavior that is disconcerting or alarming, sometimes in an effort to impress or to troll others.
- 2012, David Brown (18 March 2012), Richard Bacon on the online abuse he’s suffered for two years, Radio Times (retrieved 2017-11-09; archived from the original 2015-03-21):
- “These trolls think they’re being satirical and brave because they’re putting these dangerous, edgy so-called jokes on there, but in reality it’s cowardly. It’s the antithesis of bravery because they rarely identify themselves or give away personal information. That’s not courage.”
- 2015, Ellen Pao (16 July 2015), Former Reddit CEO Ellen Pao: The trolls are winning the battle for the Internet, Washington Post (retrieved 2017-11-09; archived from the original 2017-10-20):
- A large portion of the Internet audience enjoys edgy content and the behavior of the more extreme users; it wants to see the bad with the good, so it becomes harder to get rid of the ugly. But to attract more mainstream audiences and bring in the big-budget advertisers, you must hide or remove the ugly.
- 2017, Matthew Sheffield (27 April 2017), Trolling for a race war: neo-Nazis are trying to bait leftist “antifa” activists into violence—and radicalize white people, Salon (retrieved 2017-11-09; archived from the original 2017-09-04):
- At first, trolling was simply an apolitical form of amusement — web posting as performance art. The image board 4chan soon became its mecca.
- Over time, however, the trolls began moving from joking about racism to advocating it in their desire to become ever more edgy. Andrew Anglin, creator of the neo-Nazi website the Daily Stormer and a longtime troll before that, described the transformation process in a lengthy post on his blog:
- “The sentiments behind the jokes slowly became serious, as people realized they were based on fact," he wrote. "Non-ironic Nazism [began] masquerading as ironic Nazism.”
- 2017, Jay Hathaway (25 May 2017), Are fidget spinners white supremacist now?, Daily Dot (retrieved 2017-11-09; archived from the original 2017-09-29):
- Dank meme communities love making fun of fidget spinners, especially because spinners are associated with autistic kids, a favorite target for mockery in “edgy” online spaces like 4chan and Reddit. There, spinners are considered emblematic of everything that’s wrong with society, and they’re used as a metaphor for anything unlikeable.
- 2012, David Brown (18 March 2012), Richard Bacon on the online abuse he’s suffered for two years, Radio Times (retrieved 2017-11-09; archived from the original 2015-03-21):
Related terms
Translations
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creatively challenging; cutting-edge; leading-edge — see cutting-edge
on the edge between acceptable and offensive
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(dated) irritable — see irritable
art: having some of the forms, such as drapery or the like, too sharply defined
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