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edgy (adj.)
"having sharp edges," 1755, from
edge
(n.) +
-y
(2). Meaning "tense and irritable" is attested by 1837, perhaps from notion of being
on the edge
, at the point of doing something irrational (a figurative use attested from c.1600).
